Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
~ Norbert Wiener

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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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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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Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
~ Norbert Wiener

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There are no answers, only cross references.
~ Norbert Wiener

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

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A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.
~ Norbert Wiener

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One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.
~ Norbert Wiener

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