"the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine"

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Norbert Wiener

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“Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.”
“Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923
“What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012
“To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.”
“As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.”
“I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.”
“I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit booty?”

Source : "ECW One Night Stand", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.”

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