Everyone designs who devises courses of action aim... -Herbert A. Simon

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

Herbert A. Simon , Economist
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One finds limits by pushing them....
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but ...
The proper study of mankind is the science of design....
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones....
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When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to t...
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world....
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we m...
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational....

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