Cybernetics Quotes

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

  Heinz von Foerster

  Order, Firsts, Observing

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• The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Art, Communication, Mean

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

  Francisco Varela

  Long, Phases, Influence

  Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.38, MIT Press

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• The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

  Douglas Adams

  Wall, Fun, Men

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.95, Del Rey

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

  Claude Shannon

  Mean, Use, Internet

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• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

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• What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Opportunity, Destiny, Doors

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Success, Christian, Differences

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivation, Inspiration, Using Your Talents

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Differences, Preparation

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.29, Penguin

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

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Management, Profession, Ifs

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

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• Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Famous Basketball, Together

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.70, Penguin

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• We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Determination, Business

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.82, Penguin

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• the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

  Norbert Wiener

  Communication, Animal, Machines

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• The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Science, Government, Nomenclature

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• For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Imagination, Goal

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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• Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Mistake, Inspiration

  Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

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• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.102, Penguin

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• Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Thinking, Feelings, Desire

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.78, Penguin

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Determine, Psycho Cybernetics, Happens

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Persons, Psycho Cybernetics

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.12, Penguin

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• Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Effort, Creative, Jam

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.56, Penguin

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