#skull

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dust #empty #erudition #into #out

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#empty #i #i think #into #my own

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#circle #doing #forest #later #open

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. ↗

— David Eagleman

#anything #building #composed #computational #consistency

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#categorizing #difficult #few #forget #items

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#i #ringing #silent #skull

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#hate #place #skulls #vulture

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#cast #england #ever #had #huxley

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#crystal #crystal-skulls #quartz-crystal #quartz-skull #stephen-richards