Norbert Wiener





Norbert Wiener

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Average rating: 3.83 · 373 ratings · 41 reviews · 29 distinct works · Similar authors
The Human Use Of Human Bein...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1949 — 10 editions
Cybernetics: or the Control...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1948 — 9 editions
God & Golem, Inc.
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions
I Am Mathematician
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1956 — 2 editions
Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood An...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions
Invention: The Care and Fee...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
Cabinet 12: The Enemy
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004
Мое отношение к кибернетике...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969
The Tempter
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1959
Cybernetics of the Nervous ...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

“We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization...In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system...It is the greatest possible victory to be, to continue to be, and to have been. No defeat can deprive us of the success of having existed for some moment of time in a universe that seems indifferent to us.

This is no defeatism...The declaration of our own nature and the attempt to build up an enclave of organization in the face of nature's overwhelming tendency to disorder is an insolence against the gods and the iron necessity that they impose. Here lies tragedy, but here lies glory too...

All this represents the manner in which I believe I have been able to add something positive to the pessimism of...the existensialists. I have not replaced the gloom of existence by a philosophy which is optimistic in any Pollyanna sense, but...with a positive attitude toward the universe and toward our life in it. ”
Norbert Wiener

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



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