Quotes of Norbert Wiener - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ 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. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ 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

“ Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ”

- Norbert Wiener

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Norbert Wiener
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