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Norbert Wiener has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
• Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye…
• The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of…
• I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we…
• There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes,…
• The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock…
• Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor…
• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
• It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such…
• If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be…
• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is…
• To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

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