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A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a terrible thing to have if you don't know how to use it.

Language is a window into human nature.

Memory is not a tape recorder. It's a constructive, reconstructive process.

People are producers of their life circumstances, not just products of them.

The way you think largely determines how you feel and behave.

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence. Me, I study natural stupidity.

The human operator is not a simple channel, but a complex system with limited capacity and selective attention.

Cognition is the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The capacity of short-term memory is about seven items.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

The Earth revolves around its own axis every day, causing the apparent motion of the stars.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

The Earth is spherical, and its circumference can be measured by the angle of the sun's rays at different latitudes.

The whole is other than the sum of its parts.

The chimpanzee, like man, is capable of insight.

The whole is other than the sum of its parts.

The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

If you never make a mistake, you're not trying hard enough.