"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.18, Da Capo Press

Norbert Wiener

#Adequate Quotes #Information Quotes

“Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.”
“A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Jan 06, 2014
“Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.”
“Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.”
“I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.”
“Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.”
“You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.”
“When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.”

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