Top 29 Foerster Quotes
#2. Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you.
Atul Gawande
#3. Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
Heinz Von Foerster
#5. This life of mine has been a little tough to negotiate the past two years. Not that everyone's isn't, after all, it wouldn't be called 'life' if a litte difficulty weren't automatically interferred. 'Super duper journey of progress and inspiration' maybe, but not 'life'.
Jennifer Howard
#6. In 1865, he was assigned to the Catholic Mission in North Kohala on the island of Hawaii.
Brien Foerster
#7. Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.
Pope Benedict XVI
#8. We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.
Papa John Creach
#9. The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
John Lloyd Young
#10. Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him
Heinz Von Foerster
#12. Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Heinz Von Foerster
#13. Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.
Heinz Von Foerster
#16. For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
Jean Nidetch
#17. Daemon Black could be as prickly as a hedgehog having a really bad day, but underneath all that spindly armor, he was sweet, protective, and incredibly selfless.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#18. Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Heinz Von Foerster
#20. He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.
Mitch Albom
#21. First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
Heinz Von Foerster
#23. The Blessing #1:
May your eyes be profitable,
may your ears be dutiful,
may your tongue be insightful,
may your hands be successful.
May your mind be fruitful,
may your heart be blissful,
may your soul be joyful,
may your life be peaceful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.
Sebastian Coe
#25. Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.
Charles Halford
#26. I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.
Edith Wharton
#29. What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Heinz Von Foerster
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