The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Please don't stand up on my account.

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.

I'd like to tour with the Backstreet Boys because I love them so much.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.