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Norbert Wiener Quotes: The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
         

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.


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



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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.



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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.



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There are no answers, only cross references.



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



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



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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.



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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.



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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.





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