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Norbert Wiener Quotes

«Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions»
Author: Norbert Wiener | About: Progress | Keywords: imposes, restriction, restrictions
«What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead»
«The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is praying. . . that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.»
«The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival»
Author: Norbert Wiener | About: World | Keywords: debts, inconvenient
«To live effectively is to live with adequate information.»
Author: Norbert Wiener | Keywords: adequate, effectively
«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»
Author: Norbert Wiener | Keywords: devices
«The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.»
«A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.»