"Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste."

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1950). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”

Norbert Wiener

#Use Quotes #Waste Quotes #Degradation Quotes

“The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.”
“In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.”
“The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.”
“Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.”
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”
“God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.”
“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”
“I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.”

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