The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical machine following… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
