“So how does the massively complicated brain, with its eighty-six billion neurons, get built from such a small recipe book? The answer pivots on a clever strategy implemented by the genome: build incompletely and let world experience refine. Thus, for humans at birth, the brain is remarkably unfinished, and interaction with the world is necessary to complete it.”
― Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
― Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
“Лежу тут на диване в одиночестве, с женой.”
― The Suitcase
― The Suitcase
“Я оглядел пустой чемодан. На дне - Карл Маркс. На крышке - Бродский. А между ними - пропащая, бесценная жизнь.”
― The Suitcase
― The Suitcase
“Ugly as hell, but it was the sort of thing only women would do to their hair, and so it was provocative.”
― The Word for World is Forest
― The Word for World is Forest
“Oxygen was – to quote Mikhail Elesco, the team’s top geologist – a needy bastard that couldn’t stand not to be in a relationship, no matter how toxic.”
― Children of Memory
― Children of Memory
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