Cybernetics Quotes

Cybernetics Quote of the day

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.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

The map is not the territory.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.

Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.