Uhlig Communications Quotes & Sayings

This, reader, is an honest book ... I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray — Michel De Montaigne

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me. — Billy Joel

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps. — Louisa May Alcott

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy. — William James

Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math — Steve Merrick

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ... — J.M. August

But reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum. None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts. — David Eagleman