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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

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The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

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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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All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

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No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

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In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

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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.

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Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 15th, 1916

Died: February 9th, 2001

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