“When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.” SaidDesireSpeakInterestingProductsConversationFeminineFascinatedTelephones Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing.” ThinkingFirstsResultsAchieveProductsConversationUltimateValuable Author:Jonathon Keats
“We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.” GivingYearsWould BeRunningTogetherDesireUnderstandingNaturalDecisionModernProductsHolyConversationProgramDancingBillionsCellsAspirationDecision MakingChemicalsFabricMaking LoveSelectionHighwaysParallelsFluidMoleculesNatural SelectionModern ScienceComing TogetherAlgorithmsNuminous Author:David Eagleman
“A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.” HumansMeanPersonsHuman BeingsProductsConversationOneselfAll TimeOur TimeContinuing Author:Howard Gardner