Date: Aug 29, 2013

"Human mental bandwidth is finite."

— Badger, Emily

Date: May 30, 2013

"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."

— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)

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: February 28, 2014

"Imagine you could pry off the back of Wes Anderson’s head as if it were a vintage TV set and rummage around inside."

— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)

Date: May 19, 2014

"These days we tend to think of memory as a camera or a video recorder, filming, storing, and recycling the vast troves of data we accumulate throughout our lives."

— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)

Date: May 19, 2014

"Like a text recalled from a computer's hard drive, each memory was subject to editing."

— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)

Date: May 23, 2014

"What he had demonstrated was that the nervous system was like a computer terminal through which you could deliver commands to stop a problem, like acute inflammation, before it starts, or repair a body after it gets sick."

— Behar, Michael

Date: January 11, 2014

"'Think about a fish tank,' says Dr. Nedergaard. 'If you have a tank and no filter, the fish will eventually die. So, how do the brain cells get rid of their waste? Where is their filter?'"

— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)

Date: June 6, 2015

"An emerging body of research suggests that exercising in a way that taxes your coordination, agility and balance -- a suite of abilities known as 'gross motor skills' -- rewires your brain in ways that are fundamentally different from straightforward aerobic activity or strength training."

— Hutchinson, Alex