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David Eagleman Quotes

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

David Eagleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1971

Topics

Consistency Building Pink Alien Kind

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

Maurice Saatchi

Lonely America Become Up Speaking

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

Jeff Lemire

Wind Story Mystery Long You Run

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

Michael Ignatieff

Life Fun Ideas Play Useless False

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

Stanley Schmidt

Meet Group Matter Above Like Range

When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.

Stewart Lee

Social Media People Control Story

If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don't have a future.

Shimon Peres

Future Technology Science Children

I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.

Shiri Appleby

Confidence Start Feel I Can Know

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Tony Kushner

Work History Yourself Detail Drama

An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting area, and focuses it on a receiver. An antenna is normally designed to maximize its response in the direction in which it is pointed and minimize its response in other directions.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Direction Radiation Response Maximize

People are in a hurry. They don't want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

Ruth Glick

Work Hard Work Cooking People Look

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Mike Pence

Work Hard Work Ideas American Birth

I used to be a dusty little child.

Mike Epps

Child Little Used Dusty Little Child