Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.