Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
Norbert WienerScience is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers.
Norbert WienerAny useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
Norbert WienerProgress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.
Norbert Wiener