Alex Marshall

“Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

“Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don’t think too long. Relax. Toss a coin. Forgive, but don’t forget. To thine own self be true.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe. Physical”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection. —Plato”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain