William Ross Ashby Quotes

United Kingdom, Psychiatrist
September 6, 1903 – November, 15, 1972.

W. Ross Ashby was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby.

A brain can improve till it fits its environment.

William Ross Ashby
- Environment
- Brain
- Fit
When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

William Ross Ashby
- Numbers
- Whole
- Stable

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

William Ross Ashby
- Important
- Goal
- Chaos