A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation. Norbert Wiener More Quotes by Norbert Wiener More Quotes From Norbert Wiener A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it. Norbert Wiener healthy community order Am I really a good mathematician? Norbert Wiener mathematician The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked. Norbert Wiener type goal process The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. Norbert Wiener logic fields math A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. Norbert Wiener engineering math science In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy Norbert Wiener he-man important men Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. Norbert Wiener economic slave-labor accepting The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. Norbert Wiener information war ideas The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation. Norbert Wiener games math success the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine Norbert Wiener machines communication animal I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt. Norbert Wiener determination may inspire Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. Norbert Wiener moments fields chess
