Quotes About Brains

Barring the necessary brains, of course," Kruppe said, "which is my true skill—though one such as Coll would never understand such abilities, alien as they are to him.

We define adulthood as a solemn recognition of responsibility. We make the distinction when considering the acts of children, and will argue that they were not responsible, because their brains have not yet matured to make the proper connection between an act and its consequences.

Memes, like genes, are selected against the background of other memes in the meme pool. The result is that gangs of mutually compatible memes – coadapted meme complexes or memeplexes – are found cohabiting in individual brains. This is not because selection has chosen them as a group, but because each separate member of the group tends to be favoured when its environment happens to be dominated by the others.

To the extent societal rules or the wiring of your brains make it easy to acquire a lot of assets, then to the extent you can, you should try to improve the world.

Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all.

Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary? They're only sad.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them.

Money is worth no more than brains. It is often worth much less. Competent brains, if effectively marketed, represent a much more desirable form of capital than that which is required to conduct a business dealing in commodities, because brains are a form of capital which cannot be permanently depreciated through depressions, nor can this form of capital be stolen or spent.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization. The simple breakfast here described could not have been delivered to the New York family at a dime each, or at any other price, if organized capital had not provided the machinery, the ships, the railroads, and the huge armies of trained men to operate them. Some

the money which is essential for the conduct of business is as worthless as a sand dune, until it has been mixed with efficient brains.

They found that the fetal cells from their sons reached their brains, sprouted branches, and pumped out neurotransmitters. Their sons helped shape their thoughts.

If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.

Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. I knew I'd get on top of you somehow, he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am? No, I'm just opportunistic. I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, Oh, do that again. It felt great.

What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.

ideas are exactly as interested in the brains they're in as genes are in the bodies they're in: just enough to get themselves copied...Like computer viruses.

actual brains, which turn out be much more like sensory processors than logic machines.

Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit.

I don't know. Also he inscribed the language of power on me in the womb." "And you didn't start with that? Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit." Semiramis moved. "Yes, I know, Ama. Your grandmother says that in this day and age, you could do worse.

Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien.

We have something weird in our brains, a sort of tumor that propels us toward love. We can't live without it. Out of love we put up with children and men. Our self-denial is a form of servitude. Have you noticed that individualism and selfishness are considered positive traits in men and defects in women? We

I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.