Norbert Wiener Quotes

"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."
- Norbert Wiener
(Related: Information)

"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."
- Norbert Wiener
(Related: Decisions, Machine, Past)

"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."
- Norbert Wiener
(Related: Time, Survival, May, World)

"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
- Norbert Wiener
(Related: Progress, Future, Possibilities)

"The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information."
- Norbert Wiener
(Related: War, Idea, Information, May, Value, Weapons, World)