12 Quotes by Heinz von Foerster

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

Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act.