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.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

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

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

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

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