Forget About Nobel Prizes; They Aren't Really

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.

The Situation Has Provided A Cue; This Cue Has Given The Expert Access To Information Stored In Memory, And The Information Provides The Answer. Intuition Is Nothing More And Nothing Less Than Recognition.

Most Of What We Do To Get People Ready To Act In Situations Of Encounter Consists Of Drilling These Lists Into Them Sufficiently Deeply So That They Will Be Evoked Quickly At The Time Of The Decision.

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

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.