Engineering, Medicine, Business, Architecture And Painting Are

Enlightenments, Like Accidents, Happen Only To Prepared Minds.

The Simplest Scheme Of Evolution Is One That Depends On Two Processes; A Generator And A Test. The Task Of The Generator Is To Produce Variety, New Forms That Have Not Existed Previously, Whereas The Task Of The Test Is To Cull Out The Newly Generated Forms So That Only Those That Are Well Fitted To The Environment Will Survive.

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.

A Complex Decision Is Like A Great River, Drawing From Its Many Tributaries The Innumerable Premises Of Which It Is Constituted.

Solving A Problem Simply Means Representing It So As To Make The Solution Transparent.