"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."

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

Norbert Wiener

#Progress Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Restriction Quotes

“I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”
“No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.”
“The world is the same everywhere.”
“I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.”
“What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.”
“In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.”
“A setback only paves the way for a comeback.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 13, 2017

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