David Marcos

“In God we trust. All others [must] have data”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“My wife and I spent the next few weeks in that strange world one enters when you fear for your child’s life – the outside world, the real world, becomes a ghost world, and the people in it remote and indistinct. The only reality is intense fear, a fear driven by helpless, overwhelming love.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

“Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?”
― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human