It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior.
We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. - Norbert Wiener
We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.
- Norbert Wiener
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 messag… - Norbert Wiener
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 messag…
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 ca… - 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 ca…
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 on… - Norbert Wiener
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 on…
Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy. - Norbert Wiener
Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.
To live effectively is to live with adequate information. - Norbert Wiener
To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of o… - Norbert Wiener
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of o…
There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our pu… - Norbert Wiener
There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our pu…
There are no answers, only cross references. - Norbert Wiener
There are no answers, only cross references.
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