Quotes
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Norbert Wiener on the Probability and Entropy of Information
Messages are themselves a form of pattern and organization. Indeed, it is possible to treat sets of messages as having entropy like sets of states in the external world. Just as entropy is a measure of the disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is…
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Norbert Wiener on Information and Modern Life
Information is a name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it, and make our adjustment felt upon it. The process of receiving and of using information is the process of our adjusting to the contingencies of the outer environment, and of our living effectively within that…
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Norbert Wiener on Information and Entropy
The commands through which we exercise our control over our environment are a kind of information which we impart to it. Like any form of information, these commands are subject to disorganization in transit. They generally come through in less coherent fashion and certainly not more coherently than they were sent. In control and communication…
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Norbert Wiener on The Human Use of Human Beings
It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine are destined…
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Søren Kierkegaard on Walking
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Søren Kierkegaard
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Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe
See, that right there is what it’s all about. Laboring in obscurity. Starving and struggling. The man who embraces his mediocre nothingness shines brighter than any. Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe
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Robert Capon, Hunting the Divine Fox
Christianity starts by telling you that you have no place left to go because you are already home free, and no favour to earn because God sees you in His beloved Son, and thinks you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. All you have to do is explore the crazy Mystery of acceptance. Robert Capon,…
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G.K. Chesterton on Adventure
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. G.K. Chesterton
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Jude Doyle, This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline
Del Rey’s best love songs are not obsessive or submissive, they are addictive. They are about craving something when you know it will kill you. Jude Doyle, This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline
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Peter Van Der Merwe, Drones
Of all harmonic devices, it [a drone] is not only the simplest, but probably also the most fertile. Peter Van Der Merwe