#amp

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#championship #chess #computer #computer program #forward

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. ↗

— Frank Black

#classical #driving #girlfriend #hall #i

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers. ↗

— Frank Black

#amp #credit #give #good #got

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. ↗

— Harold Stephen Black

#effected #feedback #negative #performance #significantly

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#because #big #book #brought #comic

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. ↗

— Karen Black

#better #cancer #career #comes #done

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. ↗

— Karen Black

#illiteracy #out #people #rampant

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#campfire #country #country music #farm #i