Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

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.

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

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.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

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.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.