We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its… — 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
