Advantage Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.

— Richard Linklater

“The brain’s biggest challenge is to order unforeseeable phenomena in foreseeable categories.”

— M.Z.Riffi

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life,…

— Michael Shermer

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

— Jeff Bezos

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where…

— Lewis Mumford

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at…

— John Zachary Young

“the brain registers what is really out there in the world, makes a decision about what should be out there, and then generates its…

— Bruce M. Hood

“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in…

— Herbert Simon

“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think brains might be machines that turn information into feelings and feelings back into decisions and I've discovered that my machine has been…

— Catherine Lacey

“To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with other minds…

— Edward O. Wilson

“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections…

— David Eagleman