Date: 2006

"The neurologist made the brain sound more rickety than the old toy trucks Mark used to assemble from discarded cabinet parts and sawn-off detergent bottles."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

Date: 2006

"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

Date: 2009

"This librarian told me that your mind works like a computer, or maybe an old card file."

— Chideya, Farai (b. 1969)

Date: May 3, 2012

"A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data."

— Brooks, David (b. 1961)

Date: March 7, 2014

"For Kaku, the brain is a computer made of meat, and understanding the mind is just a really, really hard engineering problem."

— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)

Date: March 7, 2014

"If we treat minds like meat-computers, we may end up in a world where that’s the only aspect of their nature we perceive or value."

— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)

Date: 2018

"I'm doing fine / Trying to derail my one track mind."

— Dacus, Lucy (b. May 2, 1995)

Date: December 2, 2019

"It's like there's a radio station playing in my head all the time."

— Hansen, Beck [Beck] (b. July 8, 1970)