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One finds limits by pushing them.

~Herbert Simon

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

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The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

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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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The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

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Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

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The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 15th, 1916

Died: February 9th, 2001

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