"The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields."

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.2, MIT Press

Norbert Wiener

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“Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.”
“To know her was to love her.”
“But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but that word didn't capture his feelings, either. It was a little too... vague and soft around the edges. People liked ice cream. People liked to watch television. It meant nothing, and it didn't come close to explaining why, for the first time, he felt the urge to tell someone the truth...”
“I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.”
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.”
“Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.”
“Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.”
“One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.”

Source : "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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