Charlie Brooker Quotes

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think of that so often in my regular life, as I'm always interacting with people or with my computer or phone.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

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

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.