If you desire to see, learn how to act.

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.

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.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

You’'ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I don’t miss anything.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

The modern era of liberalism, the one we're living in, really has as its focus or foundation that America is unjust, immoral, and corrupt, and from the days of our founding.