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.
From Herbert Simon
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
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.
One finds limits by pushing them.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
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 function.
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
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