“The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the ...” — Herbert A. Simon Quote

“The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.”

“There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.”

“In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.”

“I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.”

“There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.”

“Music is really, really mathematical.”