NORBERT WIENER (1950)

.... Heaven save us above all from the snobbery which not only admits of possibility of thin and perfunctory work, but which cries out in the spirit of shrinking arrogance against the competition of vigor and ideas, wherever these may be found!

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When there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of becoming a priest of communication, the quality and communicative value of the message drop like a plummet.

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In the arts, the desire to find new things to say and new ways of saying them is the source of all life and interest.

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Beauty, like order, occurs in many places in this world, but only as a local and temporary fight against the Niagara of increasing entropy.