What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

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

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.