
Gordon Pask
Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made multiple contributions to cybernetics, educational psychology, educational technology, applied epistemology, chemical computing, architecture, and systems art. During his life, he gained three doctorate degrees. He was an avid writer, with more than two hundred and fifty publications which included a variety of journal articles, books, periodicals, patents, and technical reports.
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Holists are distinguished from serialists in terms of the number of inferential statements they produce... It is possible to distinguish the serialist from the holist by a tendency, on the part of a s…"
"Cybernetics is the science or the art of manipulating defensible metaphors; showing how they may be constructed and what can be inferred as a result of their existence."
"There are two subcategories of holist called irredundant holists and redundant holists. Students of both types image an entire system of facts or principles. Though an irredundant holist’s image is ri…"
"If cognitive processes can be realized in a general machine then it is possible to execute mental operations in artifacts that are not necessarily subject to the embarrassing spatio-temporal limitatio…"
"Observers are men, animals, or machines able to learn about their environment and impelled to reduce their uncertainty about the events which occur in it, by dint of learning... shall examine human ob…"
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1928
Born
Birth1996
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Gordon's philosophy





Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Gordon's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Gordon Pask is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →Explore Further
Related Quotes
"It is time to employ fractal geometry and its associated subjects of chaos and nonlinear dynamics to study …"
— Arthur D. Hall"Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with. So Nvidia... fuck you!"
— Linus Torvalds"BlackBerry isn't getting out of the hardware business. It stands alone as the only smartphone company exclu…"
— Rob Enderle"Fixed energy limits have not limited the progress of nature."
— Steve Hallett"Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F…"
— Linus Torvalds"A spider web of metal, sealed in a thin glass container, a wire heated to brilliant glow, in short, the the…"
— Vannevar Bush
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on knowledge
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on leadership
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on books
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on creativity
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on education
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on friendship
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on hope
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on life
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on mind
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on money
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change

