#co

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#box #difficult #going #him #his

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#dangers #full #implies #incomprehensible #me

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#abroad #business #companies #connections #foreign

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ↗

— David Eagleman

#billions #brain #connections #galaxy #given

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life. ↗

— Charles Eames

#details #end #give #in the end #life

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. ↗

— David Eagleman

#against #backdrop #being #being human #complexities

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

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

#anything #building #composed #computational #consistency

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows. ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #cosmos #happening #knows #most

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. ↗

— David Eagleman

#colossal #find #happening #our #them