The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969
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Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbWe need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957