Big Brains Quotes

#1. In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.

Ben Horowitz

#2. In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. OMG OMG OMG, Shane is totally crushing on the new roomie! I can't believe it. I always pictured Shane going after blond beach hotties. Who knew he liked big brains and teeny little bodies? Although, to be fair, she is cute as a button. (Why do we say that? What's so cute about a button, anyway?)

Rachel Caine

#4. We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

Mark Pagel

#5. Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

Sam Kean

#6. To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

Sam Kean

#7. Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out.
What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

Jimmy Buffett

#8. This was a very innocent planet, except for thos great big brains.
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Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

Richard Dawkins

#10. This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the Adam Project.

Michael Grant

#11. A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Steven Pressfield

#12. It me birthday and nobody came ... Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.

Graham Roumieu

#13. American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.

Charles M. Schwab

#14. Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

Warren Buffett

#15. Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun.

Joe Abercrombie

#16. The big problem, again, wasn't insanity, but that people's brains were much too big and untruthful to be practical.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

Orrin Woodward

#18. Teppic stared into his wine mug. These men are philosophers, he thought. They had told him so. So their brains must be so big that they have room for ideas that no-one else would consider for five seconds.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger)

Lisa Kleypas

#20. It was so big, that view. I'll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don't think people's brains are designed for memories like that. They're designed for things like phone numbers, or the color of someone's hair. Not hugeness.

Lucy Christopher

#21. When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

Richard Dawkins

#22. It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

Bryce Courtenay

#23. Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

Walter Hagen

#24. A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Jung

#25. I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them.

Gillian Flynn

#26. Because there's a big hole in their brains where most people have a conscience.

James Patterson

#27. People should train their brain by watching films, by listening music, by playing games, by reading quotes. If people do this, I can said from this a big percent from here you can become clever.

Deyth Banger

#28. The music, as predicted, blew big time. A live band was going to town up on stage, but really, how many times could they sing about could'a, should'a, would'a, and a dog before people's brains started to liquefy?

Nicole Williams

#29. Oftentimes, a truth is so big, so far beyond our understanding, that the only way we can grasp it is through a story. The creation of the whole universe is like that. How can our puny brains contain it?

Sam Torode

#30. We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

Rand Paul