I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.