“The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act” — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our… — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share
