Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it. . . that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.