Cybernetics Quote by Anthony Stafford Beer

“We have decided to call the entire field of control and communications theory, whether in the machine or in the animal, Cybernetics.”

— Norman Wiener

According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and…

— Anthony Stafford Beer

Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack…

— Edward Snowden

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to…

— Frances Hesselbein

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere,…

— Noam Chomsky

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

— Claude Shannon

“Cybersecurity is more about the leadership of people that it is about technology.”

— Mansur Hasib

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to…

— Gary Hamel

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

— Mary Parker Follett

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

— Stephen Covey

“General systems theory and cybernetics are deterministic while human actions are not!”

— Springer

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

— William S. Burroughs