consumir informação a toda a hora dá saúde e faz crescer... pêlos no cérebro?
 | I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He'll have nothing but the tools which |
Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
in «A Study in Scarlet», Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
(e, já agora, António Damásio e M.H. Immordino-Young, em 2009)