“onlyinclude>|Information is information|”

—  Norbert Wiener, book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

V. Computing Machines and the Nervous System. p. 132.
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)

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