Norbert Wiener Quotes

• The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in which such a benefit is possible.

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• The automatic machine, whatever we think of any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

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• What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

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• To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

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• Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

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• The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

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Norbert Wiener (10)

Birth:	26th November, 1894
Death:	18th March, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Mathematician, Professor

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