I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.

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.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

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.