77 Cybernetics Quotes
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Famous Cybernetics Quotes
The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'. — Andre-Marie Ampere
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz von Foerster
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. — Donna J. Haraway
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. — Donna J. Haraway
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. — William Gibson
Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage. — Mike Trout
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. — Seth Lloyd
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. — E. F. Schumacher
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. — W. Edwards Deming
I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. — John Perry Barlow
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. — Jaron Lanier
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. — Russell L. Ackoff
Technology is applied science. Science is the study of nature. Mathematics is the language of nature. Philosophy is the root of mathematics. All tightly interrelated. — Naval Ravikant
Short Cybernetics Quotes
- Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. — Maxwell Maltz
- Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. — Maxwell Maltz
- Cybernetics is NOT the banana. — Heinz von Foerster
- Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon. — Maxwell Maltz
- Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz von Foerster
- If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control. — Anthony Stafford Beer
- An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. — Maxwell Maltz
- You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. — Maxwell Maltz
- Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism. — Maxwell Maltz
- Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz
Psycho Cybernetics Quotes
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment. — Maxwell Maltz
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. — Maxwell Maltz
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. — Maxwell Maltz
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience. — Maxwell Maltz
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.' — Maxwell Maltz
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. — Maxwell Maltz
Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. — Maxwell Maltz
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 Mike Trout |
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More Cybernetics Quotes
With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on. — Fritjof Capra
The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory. — Andre-Marie Ampere
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments. — Claude Shannon
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components. — Terence McKenna
I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. — Richard Brautigan
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan. — Norman Mailer
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. — Saul Alinsky
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine — Norbert Wiener
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. — Poul Anderson
Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function. — James Schorr
Transhumanism is less about a singularity of human consciousness and more about the quasi-cybernetic peripheral adornment of gadgets, handbags and designer glasses. — Bryant H. McGill
Consumer transhumanism is about the quasi-cybernetic peripheral adornment of gadgets, handbags and designer glasses. — Bryant H. McGill
I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine. — Terence McKenna
[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body. — Terence McKenna
Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment. — John Fowles
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up. — Timothy Leary
The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal. — Kenneth E. Boulding
According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled. — Anthony Stafford Beer
We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it. — Jaron Lanier
The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today. — Michael Tsarion
Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs. For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans. — Jaron Lanier
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes. — Guy Davenport
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. — Douglas Adams
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