Anything That Gives Us New Knowledge Gives

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.

One Finds Limits By Pushing Them.

All Behavior Involves Conscious Or Unconscious Selection Of Particular Actions Out Of All Those Which Are Physically Possible To The Actor And To Those Persons Over Whom He Exercises Influence And Authority.

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.

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.