Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

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

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

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

Act always so as to increase the number of choices

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.

We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It’s a set-up of awesome potential.

I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.