Norbert Wiener
Norbert WienerCommunication is about becoming familiarized with a certain environment while simultaneously influencing aspects of it.
Communication is the processing of information in order to control the environment in which one lives.
Cybernetics is a technique for producing and refining a message form that is recognizable and efficient as both a mobile value-bearing container of meaning and a sensory prosthesis.
Cybernetics is concerned with developing a language and techniques that will enable us indeed to attack the problem of control and communication in general, but also to find the proper repertory of ideas and techniques to classify their particular manifestations under certain concepts.
Cybernetics is the general study of communication and the related study of control in both machines and in living beings.
Cybernetics is the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.
Information is a name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it, and make our adjustment felt upon it.
Life is characterized by perpetuating patterns : Whilpools in a river of ever-flowing water.
Pattern is a key characteristic of life. 'We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
Progress is that which imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
