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 WienerIf the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
Norbert WienerAny useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
Norbert WienerThe 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.
Norbert WienerI have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.
Norbert Wiener