What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.