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Heinz von Foerster
“The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act”
Heinz von Foerster, Einführung In Den Konstruktivismus

Friedrich Nietzsche
“And life confided the secret to me: behold, it said, l am that which must always overcome itself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Heinz von Foerster
“I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.”
Heinz von Foerster

Norbert Wiener
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns
that perpetuate themselves.”
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

David Graeber
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

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