The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Quotes
What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWhat the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906