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.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves

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

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

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

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.