Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.
Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
