"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
-Herbert Simon
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"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.“
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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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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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"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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"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."
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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."
-Herbert Simon
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
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