Heinz von Foerster Quotes
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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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Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
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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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The environment as we perceive it is our invention.
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Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
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Act always so as to increase the number of choices
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If you desire to see, learn how to act.
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First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
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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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Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
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Cybernetics is NOT the banana.
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Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
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