The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

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.

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

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 easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior.

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.