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

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

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

- 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…

- Norbert Wiener

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

- 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…

- Norbert Wiener

There are no answers, only cross references.

- 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…

- Norbert Wiener

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

- Norbert Wiener