Norbert Wiener

Mathematician

1894-11-26

Books by Norbert Wiener

The Human Use of Human Beings
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Cybernetics, or control and communication in the animal and the machine
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I am a mathematician
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Quotes by Norbert Wiener

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.
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The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
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We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.
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We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.
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It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.
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The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
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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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It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
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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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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
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In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy
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There is one quality more important than know-how and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is know-what by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.
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If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
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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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