"I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new."

"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. For instance, if you are walking in the m…"

"While studying antiaircraft fire control, Wiener may have conceived the idea of considering the operator as part of the steering mechanism and of applying to him such notions as feedback and stability…"

"When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are mo…"

"One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index."