By 1985, Machines Will Be Capable Of

Think Of The Design Process As Involving First The Generation Of Alternatives And Then The Testing Of These Alternatives Against A Whole Array Of Requirements And Restraints.

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 Spend Less Time Doing Rain Dances And More Time Seeding Clouds.

Forget About Nobel Prizes; They Aren't Really Very Important.

Because He Treats The World As Rather Empty And Ignores The Interrelatedness Of All Things (so Stupefying To Thought And Action), Administrative Man Can Make Decisions With Relatively Simple Rules Of Thumb That Do Not Make Impossible Demands Upon His Capacity For Thought.

Human Beings, Viewed As Behaving Systems, Are Quite Simple. The Apparent Complexity Of Our Behavior Over Time Is Largely A Reflection Of The Complexity Of The Environment In Which We Find Ourselves.