Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
~ Toni Morrison
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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
~ Norbert Wiener
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What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Democrats will tell you that they are the way they are because they’re trying to help Americans, because they know what’s best. But this was no more convincing to voters than a corporation’s insistence that the HR department exists to help employees. Absolutely no one believes that, of course. HR departments work for the people who hold the power, and they reinforce the company line, whatever that may be.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener
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