"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."
-Herbert Simon
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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.“
-Herbert Simon
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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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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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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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"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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"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
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"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
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"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
-Richard Meier
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
-James Wyatt
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"Architecture aims at Eternity."
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
-Gustav Stickley
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