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

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#2. What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

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#3. And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

Arundhati Roy

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#4. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

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#5. Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

Joseph M. Juran

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#6. Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

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#7. The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon

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#8. First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

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#9. If you desire to see, learn how to act.

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#10. Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

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#11. I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

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#12. The environment as we perceive it is our invention,

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#13. Everything that is said is said by an observer.

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#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.

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

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#16. Act always so as to increase the number of choices

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

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#18. In times of danger the ignorant are easy prey and in times of safety opportunities pass them by.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#19. Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

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#20. Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

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#21. I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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