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.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

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.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

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