The Human Use of Human Beings Quotes

“Properly speaking the artist, the writer, and the scientist should be moved by such an irresistible impulse to create that, even if they were not being paid for their work, they would be willing to pay to get the chance to do it. However, we are in a period in which forms have largely superseded educational content, and one which is moving toward an ever-increasing thinness of educational contents. It is now considered, perhaps more a matter of social prestige to obtain a higher degree and follow what may be regarded as a cultural career, than a matter of any deep impulse.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings : Cybernetics and Society