The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. - B. F. Skinner

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or technique for dealing with the real facts of history — the opinions, emotions, attitudes; the wishes, plans, schemes; the habits of men. He can't talk about them so he talks about heroes.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.