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• Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

  David Eagleman

  Design, Brain, Algorithms

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives”, p.80, Vintage

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• Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

  Clifford Stoll

  Science, Power, Thinking

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• Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment, to greater and greater autonomy of individuals, greater and greater development of sense organs and nervous systems conveying and processing information about the state of the organism's surroundings, and finally greater and greater consciousness. You can call this direction progress or by some other name.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Simple, Names, Independence

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• Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.

  David A. Kolb

  Integrity, Character, Degrees

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• ...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Life, God, Running

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• While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

  Alan Autry

  Economic, Profile, Plant

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Past, Information Processing, Brain

  Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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• Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.

  Zack Greinke

  Sports, Baseball, Stupid

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• Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

  Stephen Shore

  Cost, Film, Sheets

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• But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

  Manuel De Landa

  Information Processing, Decision, Events

  Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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• One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Important, Lists, Language

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear

  Assata Shakur

  Hair, Race, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.189, Zed Books

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• Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

  Jan Karon

  Healing, Writing, Way

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• Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

  David Chalmers

  Giving, Doe, Rich

  David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

  Joshua Foer

  World, Remember

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.148, Penguin

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• I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Crazy, Marine, Men

  Jayne Ann Krentz (2011). “All Night Long”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.

  Charles Yu

  Suicide, Running, Tired

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.9, Vintage

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• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Writing, Risk

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• Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

  Brian Eno

  Editing, Earth, Film

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• We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

  Bill Gates

  Food, Waste, Should

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

  Richard Gere

  Listening, Acting, World

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• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  Gary Hamel

  Luxury, Innovation, Company

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• We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Humanity, Brain

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.62, Penguin

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Hard Times, Talking

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