"We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment."

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press

Norbert Wiener

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“The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.”
“It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”
“I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!”
“It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.”
“I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.”
“I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.”
“She's half mad and three parts drunk.”
“In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.”

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