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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck
US author & humorist (1927 - 1996)

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

Marvin Minsky

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

George Santayana
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

Marvin Minsky

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins
US novelist (1936 - )

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984

If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.

Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winner

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams
US actor & comedian (1951 - )

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)
German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883)

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

Stuart Seaton

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard M. Baruch
US businessman & politician (1870 - 1965)

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

J. Gustav White

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