We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.