My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.John F. Kennedy
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.Steven Pinker
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.Steven Pinker
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.Henry David Thoreau
Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.Linus Torvalds
