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

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

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

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

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.

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