The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.