“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
“Information is a difference that makes a difference.”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
“Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
“We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
"The meaning of your communication is the response you get."
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
"Without context words and actions have no meaning at all"
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
"The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself."
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
"A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance."
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
"Number is different from quantity."
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
"The meaning of information is given by the processes that interpret it"
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)