Any use of a human being in ...

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
 Norbert Wiener

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
 Norbert Wiener
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
 Norbert Wiener
There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.
 Norbert Wiener
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.
 Norbert Wiener
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.
 Norbert Wiener