A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

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

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.