Cybernetics Quotes

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

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

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

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

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.