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

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

Act always so as to increase the number of choices

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

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

Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.