Norbert Wiener Quotes

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

Norbert Wiener

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• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Great
  • God
  • Family

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I like 'Rocky Horror.'

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Horror
  • Rocky

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Bad
  • Care
  • Voice

• Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Reasonable
  • Desirable
  • Advertisement

• Try asking for Nyx's help." "Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons." "During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?" "Not once," he said "Then how do you know she's not listening to you?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Trying
  • She
  • Help

• First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Value

• We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Harmony

• I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Life
  • Wish

• In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

  

  Norbert Wiener
  • Power
  • Sell
  • Respects