Date: 1999

"I know her mind is full of darkness, nastiness, things best forgotten or left unmentioned."

— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)

Date: 1999

"I tried to keep my mind white and blank."

— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)

Date: 1999

"The insomniac's brain is a choo-choo train."

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)

Date: 1999

"[Alfred Hitchcock’s] mind is like a threshing machine, chomping out ideas as we walk, and at meals, ideas every minute."

— Harrison, Joan (1907-1994)

Date: 1999

"Thus, in psychology, the computer serves as a model of the mind as conceived by empiricists such as Hume (with the bits as atomic impressions) and idealists such as Kant (with the program providing the rules)."

— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)

Date: 1999

"Thus the view that the brain as a general-purpose symbol-manipulating device operates like a digital computer is an empirical hypothesis which has had its day."

— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)

Date: 1999

"Whether the brain operates like a computer is a strictly empirical question to be settled by neurophysiology."

— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)

Date: 1999

"No such simple answer can be given to the related but quite different question: whether the mind functions like a digital computer, that is, whether one is justified in using a computer model in psychology."

— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)

Date: 1999

"In fact, the same empirical evidence presented for the assumption that the mind functions like a digital computer tends, when considered without making this assumption, to show that the assumption is empirically untenable."

— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)

Date: 1999

"There was always a subject, a "transcendental ego," applying the rules, which simply postponed a scientific theory of behavior by installing a little man (homunculus) in the mind to guide its actions."

— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)