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
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.
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.
goal process type
The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.
determination important quality
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 purposes are to be.
determination inspire doe
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.
punishment tragedy world
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.
fifty speak professors
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
interesting granted results
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
successful games chess-game
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
simple progress acquiescence
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
feelings may machines
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.