Occupation: Scientist Birth: June 15, 1916 Death: February 9, 2001
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 peo….
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important..
By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do..
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man ….
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational..
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to ….
Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful c….
The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intu….
The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of va….
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….
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better f….
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..
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom..
Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by infl….
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 funct….
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent..
Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferre….
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena..
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complex….