Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms aft...er dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the brain consists of "wires"; a single unit may have thousands of connections with other units and with itself. That is n...ot the case in a standard computer, where a chip usually has less than six connections. Moreover, neurons are much, much slower than the switching elements of the computer. It seems likely that the brain can accomplish its complex feats of perception and thought by means of millions of connections acting in parallel. The connections as a whole define the information content of the system. In this way a vast amount of knowledge can be brought to bear on a decision all at once. The brain seems to be able to perform as many as two hundred trillion operations in a second; not serially, but simultaneously.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high... Over the chained bay waters Liberty-- Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No poet could write again, "the red-lily,... a girl's laugh caught in a kiss;" it was his to pour in the vat from which all poets dip and quaff, for poets are brothers in this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lift your eyes Where the roads dip and where the roads rise... Seek only there Where the grey light meets the green air The hermit's chapel, the pilgrim's prayer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged fee...t and serve him for a horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank... his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions--an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into ...my inkpot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look Johnny, Spig just joined the Navy. I'm married to it. I run the mess hall. I swab the deck. I chip the rust. You're afraid th...at they'll kick Spig out of the Navy. I'm afraid that they won't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »