Norbert Wiener Quotes

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Norbert Wiener

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Small
  • Progress

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Obsession

• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Progress

• The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Work
  • Live
  • Simple

• I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Baby

• If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Simple

• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not moving, it's a dead ball, simple as that.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Simple
  • Moving
  • Answer

• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Simple
  • Media
  • Fake

• The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Simple

• 'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Simple

• You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

• You will ask how I felt about spending so much time with people who supported the Hitler regime. I will tell you that, since I had absolutely no choice in the matter, I no longer dared to think about it. To be in Germany at that time, pretending to be an Aryan, meant that you automatically socialized with Nazis. To me, they were all Nazis, whether they belonged to the party or not. For me to have made distinctions at that time—to say Hilde was a “good” Nazi and the registrar was a “bad” Nazi—would have been silly and dangerous, because the good ones could turn you in as easily and capriciously as the bad ones could save your life.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Hitler
  • Supported
  • No Choice

• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• On days I'm not working, I don't wear a ton of other makeup, but if I have to look like I care, I'll use this By Terry Ombre Blackstar eye shadow stick in Frozen Quartz and Eyeko mascara.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Makeup
  • Shadow
  • Frozen

• The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

  

  Norbert Wiener
  • Simple
  • Progress
  • Acquiescence