Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingentMore Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]