Cybernetics Quote by Heinz von Foerster

With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language,…

— Fritjof Capra

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

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

— Norman Wiener

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

— Claude Shannon

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Springer

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'.

— Andre-Marie Ampere

Once cyber crosses into the realm of the physical, then it's a physical attack, but it starts with cyber. And the idea of a…

— David E. Sanger

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new…

— Jared Cohen

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

— Alan Kay

“Further, if there is cybernetics, then someone must practice it, and cyberneticist has been anonymously coined to designate such a person.”

— John Robinson Pierce

There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.

— Ma Huateng