| "What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error." |
| Raymond Aron, from "The Opium of the Intellectuals" |
| "To value machines and virtual reality over our humanity is a choice that will clash head-on with 500,000 years of biological wisdom." |
| Richard Strozzi Heckler, Rancho Strozzi Institute |
| "The computational toolbox of individual neurons dwarfs the elements available to today's electronic circuit designers." |
| Christof Koch, Neuroscientist, Caltech |
| "The brain is nothing like the computers it has designed." |
| John J. Ratey, Harvard Medical School |