Top 21 Heinz Von Foerster Quotes
#1. I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
Charles Barkley
#2. What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Heinz Von Foerster
#3. And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#4. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
#5. Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.
Joseph M. Juran
#8. First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
Heinz Von Foerster
#10. Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Heinz Von Foerster
#14. 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
#15. Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Heinz Von Foerster
#17. Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him
Heinz Von Foerster
#18. In times of danger the ignorant are easy prey and in times of safety opportunities pass them by.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. 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
