Advantage Quote by Guy Davenport

“Reinforcing feedback occurs when a change builds on itself over time. In the language of living systems, this particular kind of reinforcing feedback is…

— Linda Booth Sweeney

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

— Alan Kay

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we…

— Jaron Lanier

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

— Nils John Nilsson

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

— Herbert Simon

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

— Norman Wiener

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

— Andrew Weil

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism:…

— Siri Hustvedt

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit…

— Peter L. Berger

“Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize…

— Nick Harkaway

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

— Paul Allen

Learning means change.

— Bart Kosko