Quotes by Norbert Wiener

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


To live effectively is to live with adequate information.


What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.


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.