Cybernetics famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
-- Claude Shannon -
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
-- Francisco Varela -
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.
-- Guy Davenport -
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
-- Heinz von Foerster