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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating ... even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

One finds limits by pushing them.