Norbert Wiener Short Quotes

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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

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The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

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Physics — or so it is generally supposed — takes no account of purpose...

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Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

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We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

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A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent'

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We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water... We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.

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I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

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Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

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In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

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The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

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If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

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It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

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We have decided to call the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal, by the name of Cybernetics, which we form from the Greek [for] steersman.

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