The Proper Study Of Mankind Is The

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.

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.

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.

Many Individuals And Organization Units Contribute To Every Large Decision, And The Very Problem Of Centralization And Decentralization Is A Problem Of Arranging The Complex System Into An Effective Scheme.

The Intelligent Altruists, Though Less Altruistic Than Unintelligent Altruists, Will Be Fitter Than Both Unintelligent Altruists And Selfish Individuals.