| Problem of control engineering and communication engineering are inseparable (C, 8) | |
| There is nothing in the nature of the computing machine that forbids it from showing conditioned reflexes (C, 130) | |
| Brain works on the principle "what I tell you three times is true" (C, 145) | |
| Not empty physical structure of machine that corresponds to brain, but machine and instructions given, gained, and stored (C, 146) | |
| Closely knit communities have very considerable measures of homeostasis (C, 160) |