“ It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messa… Norbert Wiener
“ An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. Arthur Stanley Eddington
“ IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. Stafford Beer
“ By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Donna J. Haraway
“ If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simu… Stuart A. Kauffman
“ It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. Albert Einstein
“ Big whirls have little whirls,That feed on their velocity;And little whirls have lesser whirls,And so on to viscosity. Lewis Fry Richardson
“ The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could b… John Stuart Mill
