"Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems."

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Source : Heinz von Foerster (2007). “Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition”, p.191, Springer Science & Business Media

Heinz von Foerster

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“Napster works because people who love music share and participate.”

Source : "Federal Court Tells Napster to Stop Trading Copyrighted Material". "CNN Today", www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.
“When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.”
“I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.”

Source : "Bruce Davison Is President Wilson in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 6, 2010.
“Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.”
“A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.”
“It isn't about what you do, but how you do it”
“I wish I could score everything for horns.”
“The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.”

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