12 Quotes by Heinz von Foerster

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

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

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

Act always so as to increase the number of choices.

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

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

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

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