"Cybernetics is NOT the banana."

-- Heinz von Foerster

#Cybernetics Quotes #Bananas Quotes

“Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasnâ€™t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry”
“My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.”
“It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.”

Source : "8 Hollywood Women Who Have Called Out Industry Sexism" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.
“Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.”
“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress
“Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.”
“A man who sacrifices for his wife and serves her becomes much more attractive to her.”
“Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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