Norbert Wiener Quotes

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

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

- Norbert Wiener

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

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

- Norbert Wiener

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

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

- Norbert Wiener