An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“General systems theory and cybernetics are deterministic while human actions are not!” — Springer Copy Share Image
This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments. — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.” — Kim J. Vicente Copy Share Image
“Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.” — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
“Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of… — Kim J. Vicente Copy Share Image
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) { Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,'… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during… — Leon Courville Copy Share Image
“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human,… — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Such is 'real time', the time of communication, information and perpetual interaction: the finest deterrence-space of time and events. On the real-time… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'. — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
