Circularity Quote by Heinz von Foerster

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

— Claude Shannon

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

— Norman Wiener

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

— Heinz von Foerster

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

— John Robinson Pierce

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

— Springer

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

— David Ignatius

“Cyber domains are particularly complex. Here, threat actors are unidentifiable and technology and disinformation evolve at warp speed.”

— Roger Spitz

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

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

— Ma Huateng

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

— Andre-Marie Ampere