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
friday modern physicist quantum relativity student sunday theorist theory
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is praying. . . that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.
slave-labor machines remember
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
ideas matter degrees
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
rivers water may
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 message, and may be transmitted as a message.
mathematician
Am I really a good mathematician?
witty cat models
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
order community healthy
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.
adequate information
To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
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.
communication animal cybernetics
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine