Norbert Wiener Quotes

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

I don’t believe in an answering questions that have not become relevant yet.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Intelligence always carries uncertainties. That is the nature of the beast.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Not all questions can be answered.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.