"The invasion of psychology by cybernetics is making us realize that the ordinary concepts of psychology must be refor…"

"If intellectual power is to be developed, we must somehow construct amplifiers for intelligence — devices that, suppl…"

"Two main lines are readily distinguished. One already well developed in the hands of von Bertalanffy and his co-worke…"

"Every isolated determinate dynamic system, obeying unchanging laws, will ultimately develop some sort of organisms th…"

"Every stable system has the property that if displaced from a state of equilibrium and released, the subsequent movem…"

"The primary fact is that all isolated state-determined dynamic systems are selective: from whatever state they have i…"

"Many workers in the biological sciences — physiologists, psychologists, sociologists — are interested in cybernetics …"

"Cybernetics was defined by Wiener as “the science of control and communication, in the animal and the machine” — in a…"

"Cybernetics treats not things but ways of behaving. It does not ask “what is this thing?” but “what does it do?”... I…"

"During the last few years it has become apparent that the concept of "machine" must be very greatly extended if it is…"