Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

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.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

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

Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive.

Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.