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Norbert Wiener Quotes: A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
         

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.


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Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.



We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.



There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.



The 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.

The 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.



There are no answers, only cross references.

There are no answers, only cross references.



Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.



Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.



A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.



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 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.



To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.





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Kršćanin koji je izgubio vedrinu, postao je beživotan i više je svjedok protiv vjere nego za vjeru.

Kršćanin koji je izgubio vedrinu, postao je beživotan i više je svjedok protiv vjere nego za vjeru.



let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences



In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force



You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.



Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.



All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.



Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?



You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.



I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace



When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.




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