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

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

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.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

We're taking back the night

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

The strongest passion which I have is honor.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!