“Loud actions, small people, loud voice, small mouths, loud world, small minds.”

“If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.”

“Feedback control is certainly not controlled feedback.”

“There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.”

“Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each...”

“Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.”

“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. ”