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.
~ Herbert Simon
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.
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
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.
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.
One finds limits by pushing them.
