Some definitions of cybernetics, when it resonates with me

“A science concerned with the study of systems of any nature which are capable of receiving, storing, and processing information so as to use it for control."

— A.N. Kolmogorov

“Cybernetique – the art of growing.”
— A.M. Ampere (19th century)

“The science of control and communication in the animal and machine”
— Norbert Wiener

“The art and science of securing defensible metaphors.”
— Gordon Pask

“Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity”
— Heinz von Foerester

"Call me Trimtab."

— Buckminster Fuller

“A way of thinking.”
— Ernst von Glasersfeld

“The science and art of understanding.”
— Humberto Maturana

“The ability to cure all temporary truth of eternal triteness.”
— Herbert Brun

“A way of thinking about ways of thinking, of which it is one”
— Larry Richards