The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

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.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

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

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

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine