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

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

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

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.