The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.
Am I really a good mathematician?
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.