"A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent"

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Norbert Wiener

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“It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.”
“The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”
“There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.”

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“When you donâ€™t have much, having less isnâ€™t so bad.”
“A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.”
“I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).”
“Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.”
“With a girl, there's a lot left in the girl's body without a head. Of course, the personality is gone.”

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