• We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

    Norbert Wiener: We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. 
A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.
    Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press