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

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

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

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?

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 don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Anyone can do whatever they want in life, this is our world to play in.

Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

Economized love is never real love.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.