"We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message."

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press

Norbert Wiener

#Rivers Quotes #Water Quotes #May Quotes

“Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it! There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!”
“You can be who you will,â€ he repeated. His voice softened. â€œAnd if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.”
“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”
“Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.”
“It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.”
“Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.”

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