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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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Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. – Herbert Simon

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Technology
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Herbert Simon
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Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. – Herbert Simon

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Nature
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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. – Herbert Simon

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design
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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. – Oscar Niemeyer

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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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architecture

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan. – Tadao Ando

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architecture

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if its a true story. – Joel Coen

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architecture

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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. – Salma Hayek

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