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

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Source : "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#Cybernetics Quotes #Management Quotes #Profession Quotes

“I used to be an angry man myself. Iâ€™m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis GassÃ©e)”
“I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.”
“History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.”

Source : Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books
“When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.”
“scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
“I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.”
“It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth”
“I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.”

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