One finds limits by pushing them.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.