If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.