Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wienerwas an American mathematician and philosopher. He was professor of mathematics at MIT...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth26 November 1894
CountryUnited States of America
running long survival
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.
ideas organization world
A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent
matter energy information
Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.
answers crosses murphys-law
There are no answers, only cross references
progress possibility restriction
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
ants function humans
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.
running age phases
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.
communication animal cybernetics
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
math fields logic
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
learning science discovery
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
use waste degradation
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
faith men have-faith
Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.
friday monday sunday
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.
slave-labor economic accepting
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.