Norbert Wiener Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Norbert Wiener:

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.
~Norbert Wiener


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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.
~Norbert Wiener


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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~Norbert Wiener


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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
~Norbert Wiener


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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.
~Norbert Wiener


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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.
~Norbert Wiener


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<a href="https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norbert-wiener-quotes/#33409e07">https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norbert-wiener-quotes/#33409e07</a>

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