Quote by Herbert Simon
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are con

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. – Herbert Simon

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon

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Science
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon

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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. – Antonio Gaudi

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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. – Jay Chiat

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architecture

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when youre talking about building a house, youre talking about dreams. – Robert A. M. Stern

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architecture

An architects most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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