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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6acf7b5 | Every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged | Max Barry | ||
| 16581e0 | I'm Australian; I know how to use a shotgun! | australians | Max Barry | |
| ddaf99b | This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to the influence of persuasion techniques, especially when they broadcast information about themselves that allowed identification of their personality type--their true name, basically--and the attack vectors for these techniques were primarily aural and visual. But no one thought of this as magic. It was just falling for .. | Max Barry | ||
| e089b3b | I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do. | brain muscle | Max Barry | |
| 6cf80a3 | Power knows power. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 3077675 | but it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| b6877c4 | For example, you might have a sever sunburn as a child. Many decades later, you might develop skin cancer at that same site. This means it probably took that long for the other mutation to occur and finally tip the cell into a cancerous mode. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 98c87c2 | Already physicists are doing the basic calculations necessary to make an MRI machine fit into a cell phone. | Michio Kaku | ||
| b11ac40 | We can now give you a biological reason why cramming doesn't work," says Dr. Tully. The best way to prepare for a final exam is to mentally review the material periodically during the day, until the material becomes part of your long-term memory. This may also explain why emotionally charged memories are so vivid and can last for decades. The CREB repressor gene is like a filter, cleaning out useless information. But if a memory is associat.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a3b9545 | One day , would it be possible to walk through walls ? To build starships than can travel faster than the speed of life? TO READ OTHER PEOPLE'S MIND ? To become INVISIBLE ? To move object with the power of our minds? To transport our bodies instantly through outer space?? Since I was a child , I've always been fascinated by these questions. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 3abf737 | Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 14d767d | your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969. | Michio Kaku | ||
| dd9ef12 | n m n`tbrh Hqyq@ hw mjrd tqryb yqwm bh l`ql lml lthGrt; kl mn yr~ lHqyq@ bTryq@ mkhtlf@. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 4475d36 | Studies have shown that retaining memories can be improved by getting sufficient sleep between the time of activity and a test. Neuroimaging shows that the areas of the brain that are activated during sleep are the same as those involved in learning a new task. Dreaming is perhaps useful in consolidating this new information. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 0560df6 | However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order to prevent drowning, because they are air-breathing mammals, not fish. So if they dream, it is probably in only one hemisphere at a time.) | Michio Kaku | ||
| 85c1b64 | Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. --ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER | Michio Kaku | ||
| 8137f2d | when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts. | Michio Kaku | ||
| d8fe182 | I don't have to," replies the philosopher. "I only have to outrun you.")" | Matt Ridley | ||
| 4182d9d | time always erodes advantage. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 6990427 | I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal. | may-dodd pioneers-jim-fergus survival | Jim Fergus | |
| 85ace1a | Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's bro.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 5568bb8 | I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations. | heartbreak | Jim Fergus | |
| 54c662c | As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own insignificance no longer terrifies me as it once did, but comforts me, makes me feel a part, however tiny, of the whole complete and perfect universe. . . and when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make, absorbed by the the sandy soil, dried i.. | Jim Fergus | ||
| d828556 | To share Eucharistic communion with someone unbaptized, or committed to another story or system, is odd--not because the sacrament is 'profaned', or because grace cannot be given to those outside the household, but because the symbolic integrity of the Eucharist depends upon its being celebrated by those who both commit themselves to the paradigm of Jesus' death and resurrection and acknowledge that their violence is violence offered to Jes.. | eucharist eucharistic-theology holy-communion open-communion sacramental-theology | Rowan Williams | |
| a9d2bc3 | No horoscope matches this accuracy. No theory of human causality, Freudian, Marxist, Christian or animist, has ever been so precise. No prophet in the Old Testament, no entrail-grazing oracle in ancient Greece, no crystal-ball gypsy clairvoyant on the pier at Bognor Regis ever pretended to tell people exactly when their lives would fall apart, let alone got it right. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 8f5e92a | Imagine that the genome is a book. There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES. Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called GENES. Each story is made up of paragraphs, called EXTONS, which are interrupted by advertisements called INTRONS. Each paragraph is made up of words, called CODONS. Each word is written in letters called BASES. | literature science literaturegy science-and-literature genetics | Matt Ridley | |
| c8a22d6 | It is strange to me that most people assume companies will be imperfect (as they are), but they assume that government agencies will be perfect, which they are not. | Matt Ridley | ||
| fffabe6 | Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 46d0649 | Think of this: never before this generation has the average person been able to afford to have somebody else prepare his meals. You | Matt Ridley | ||
| 11b3f94 | In the beginning was the word. The word proselytised the sea with its message, copying itself unceasingly and forever. The word discovered how to rearrange chemicals so as to capture little eddies in the stream of entropy and make them live. The word transformed the land surface of the planet from a dusty hell to a verdant paradise. The word eventually blossomed and became sufficiendy ingenious to build a porridgy contraption called a human.. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 442722a | Anaxagoras' belief that lying on the right side during sex would produce a boy was so influential that centuries later some French aristocrats had their left testicles amputated. | Matt Ridley | ||
| dc8c5e8 | It was these Prussian schools that introduced many of the features we now take for granted. There was teaching by year group rather than by ability, which made sense if the aim was to produce military recruits rather than rounded citizens. There was formal pedagogy, in which children sat at rows of desks in front of standing teachers, rather than, say, walking around together in the ancient Greek fashion. There was the set school day, punct.. | Matt Ridley | ||
| c08b06a | But if there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make, one blind spot, it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is. As a result, again and again we mistake cause for effect; we blame the sailing boat for the wind, or credit the bystander with causing the event. | Matt Ridley | ||
| aa981b6 | Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 975dba1 | American presidential politics is entirely based on the myth that a perfect, omniscient, virtuous and incorruptible saviour will emerge from the New Hampshire primary every four years, and proceed to lead his people to the promised land. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 405f620 | No crime too small' was never exactly Moriarty's slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented. | moriarty | Kim Newman | |
| 0d1019b | Lane and Zack got hitched. So while it might not be very punk rock to be too young to drink legally at your own wedding, it's certainly handy to have the thumbs up from God to get laid. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 55ed6dc | The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch. | women-s-rights women complaints sneaky women-s-lib liberation women-s-liberation tricks | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 7dd10a1 | If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no... | woman silence shut-up perfect quiet | Jennifer Crusie | |
| a32291e | No, this wasn't just about sex, but for the next hour or so, it was going to be mostly about sex. | sex | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 2e61010 | Life is more than great sex and a nice car." "Well, yeah. But not a lot more." | sex life meaning-of-life cars | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 657bae5 | Allie put her chin on his shoulder to look into the carton. He had great shoulders and Chinese food. At the moment, he was the perfect man. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 60226e3 | Everyone Lies. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 00a050e | Luke is the father of the heart, Richard is the father of the mind, and Christopher is the father of the body. | Jennifer Crusie |