James Patterson Quotes

Squirrel brains make you smart.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.

Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

We have our own brains.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.