Norbert Wiener Quotes

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.

Norbert Wiener

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• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Find
  • Army
  • Darkness

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Champion
  • Train
  • Mindset

• I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Red

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Work
  • Question

• The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Daily
  • Page
  • Newspaper

• Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • History
  • Knowing
  • Scared

• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Pyramids

• I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Drama

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Never
  • Look

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Remember

• Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Small
  • Control

• I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Daughter
  • Waves

• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • True
  • Past

• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  

  David Boies
  • Past
  • Purpose
  • Decision

• There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • You
  • Find
  • Just

• I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • World
  • Remember
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Norbert Wiener
  • Past
  • Decisions
  • Machine