Cybernetics

🇬🇧Gregory Bateson

Science

1904–1980

"We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong"

🇬🇧Anthony Stafford Beer

operations research

1926–2002

"There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time."

"Bibliography of George, F.H. at isbndb.com"

🇬🇧Kevin Warwick

Politics

b. 1954

"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change."

W. Ross Ashby

Science

1903–1972

"The concept of "variety" inseparable from that of "information."

🇺🇸Heinz von Foerster

Science

1911–2002

"I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices"

🇨🇱Humberto Maturana

Philosophy

1928–2021

"Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings."

🇺🇸Claude Elwood Shannon

Mathematics

1916–2001

"A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers."

"Pestel was a very forceful person and quickly saw the power of system dynamics."

Francis Heylighen

Education

b. 1960

"Francis Heylighen profile at Google Scholar"