Heinz Von Foerster Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Heinz Von Foerster
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz Von Foerster
Act always so as to increase the number of choices — Heinz Von Foerster
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen. — Heinz Von Foerster
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
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz Von Foerster
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today. — Heinz Von Foerster
The environment as we perceive it is our invention, — Heinz Von Foerster
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz Von Foerster
Cybernetics is NOT the banana. — Heinz Von Foerster
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz Von Foerster