"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
To write is to resist; to create is to defy oblivion.
All complex behavior can be reduced to simpler stimulus-response units.