Quotes by Norbert Wiener

• What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
• To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
• 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 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.
• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.