Information is the difference that makes a difference.

The map is not the territory, but if the map is accurate, it will have a similar structure to the territory.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions - and the fundamental principle of cybernetics.

We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.

The purpose of a system is what it does - not what we say it does or wish it would do.

Complex systems exhibit emergent behavior that cannot be predicted by analyzing their parts in isolation.

Cybernetics teaches us that control is not about domination, but about regulation and adaptation.

The brain does not process information - it creates it through interaction with the environment.

In cybernetics, we don't ask "what is this thing made of?" but "what does it do?"

Every system has its own logic. To change the outcomes, you must first understand the system's rules.

Cybernetics reveals that we are not separate from our tools - we create tools that then recreate us.

The most effective control systems are those that learn and adapt, not those that command and control.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom - but cybernetics connects them all.

A system's complexity is measured by the number of ways it can surprise you.

Cybernetics teaches humility: we are all participants in systems larger than ourselves.

The boundary between organism and environment is not fixed but constantly negotiated through feedback.

In complex systems, the cause is often the effect, and the effect becomes the cause.

Cybernetics shows us that stability and change are not opposites but complementary aspects of living systems.

The most dangerous error in system design is solving the wrong problem perfectly.

Information theory teaches us that meaning emerges from constraint - from what is not said as much as what is.

Cybernetics reveals that consciousness itself may be a feedback process - the mind observing its own operations.

In cybernetic systems, the controller becomes part of the system it controls.

The goal of a system is often hidden in its structure, not stated in its purpose.

Cybernetics teaches that error is not failure but information - the essential ingredient for learning.

We don't live in a universe of things, but in a universe of processes and relationships.

The cybernetic perspective reveals that intelligence is not a property of individuals but of systems.

Every system has its own intelligence - the question is whether that intelligence serves our purposes or its own.

Cybernetics shows us that the observer is always part of the system being observed.