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Norbert Wiener Quotes: Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
         

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


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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.

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.



We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.



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.

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.



The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.



There are no answers, only cross references.

There are no answers, only cross references.



Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.



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.

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.



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.

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.



To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.



Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.





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But he just stared at my eyes, as if searching for a stray eyelash. A free wish.



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