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One finds limits by pushing them.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of... →
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but... →
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... →
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
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... →
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
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.... →
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so... →
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the... →
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
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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