Geoffrey Miller Quotes

#1. Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.

Geoffrey Miller

#2. Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

Warren Buffett

#3. Then the Miller fell off his horse.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#4. I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

Natasha Lyonne

#5. Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits.

Geoffrey Miller

#6. Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#7. Gaia has left us wonder wherever we go, if we only open our eyes to it." ~ Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#8. If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

Geoffrey Miller

#9. The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

Geoffrey Miller

#10. These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Geoffrey Miller

#11. If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

Geoffrey Miller

#12. The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

Geoffrey Miller

#13. The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

Ice-T

#14. What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

Geoffrey Miller

#16. I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

Keke Palmer

#17. The law of governance, risk-management, and compliance is the body of rules, regulations, and best practices that, individually and collectively, are intended to ensure that organizations are managed effectively and in such a way as to enhance social welfare.

Geoffrey P. Miller

#18. You call my Wall Street words "cuss words" ... I call them "sentence enhancers".

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. capitalism is not "materialistic," but "semiotic." It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands,

Geoffrey Miller