Date: Summer, 2004

"Because of the way we live, the basement of the American mind fills up with the sexual use of other people."

— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)

Date: Summer, 2004

"Even on the subway and in the street, porn-i-color daydreams issue through our mental viewfinders."

— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)

Date: 2006

"While the amygdala's role as a sentinel and trigger for distress is old news to neuroscience, its social role, as part of the brain's system for emotional contagion, has been revealed only recently."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2006

"More generally, the amygdala acts as a radar for the brain, calling attention to whatever might be new, puzzling, or important to learn more about."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2007

"One's collection comes to symbolize the contents of one's mind."

— Updike, John (1932-2009)

Date: 2007

"Books externalize our brains, and turn our homes into thinking bodies."

— Updike, John (1932-2009)

Date: 2007

"Cognitive scientists sometimes make the analogy that the brain is like a computer’s CPU, or hardware, while the mind is like the programs or software running on the CPU."

— Daniel J. Levitin (1957 - )

Date: July-August, 2008

"When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating 'like clockwork.'"

— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)

Date: July-August, 2008

"Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them [our brains] as operating 'like computers.'"

— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)

Date: July-August, 2008

"And now, thanks to the growing power that computer engineers and software coders wield over our intellectual lives, Taylor’s ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well."

— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)