John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth quotes

Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except that they control electromechanical rather than biological equipment. Beyond these functional similarities, computers and brains have virtually nothing in common.
-- John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

#Brain #Information #Common

So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but actually respect them for those beliefs? Because nothing less than that will do. It can’t. Simply tolerating someone who believes differently than we do isn’t enough. “Accepting” them isn’t enough. Having true and abiding peace with them means loving them. And that means respecting them. Because love without respect isn’t real love at all. It’s at best condescending patronization.
-- John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

#Real #Believe #Mean

Brains first and then Hard Work.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.