“Information is information, not matter or energy.”
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.”
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society“Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.”
Norbert Wiener“The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.”
Norbert Wiener“Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually in terms of the success of this metaphor.”
Norbert Wiener“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.”
Norbert Wiener“It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.”
Norbert Wiener“Information is information, not matter or energy.”
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the MachineAll in One Creative & Marketing Platform to tell stories at scale
