"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
-Herbert Simon
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.“
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"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it."
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"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."
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"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."
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