Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible t….

I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially def….

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to….

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not….

It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a num….

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness..

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and ….

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics..

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked..

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields..

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance,….

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree..

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept t….

A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimatel….

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith..

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experimen….

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor..

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for ou….

What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the o….