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.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

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

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

One finds limits by pushing them.

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.