Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly..

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment..

Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem ….

The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individu….

The proper study of mankind is the science of design..

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world..

One finds limits by pushing them..

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted..

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….

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention..

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds..

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of req….

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians..

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attentio….

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but….

Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they w….

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantl….

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

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..

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to tho….

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