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

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature

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