“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) American mathematician
Philosophy of Science (1945) (with A. Rosenblueth)
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
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