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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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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Knowledge
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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If were bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if were good people we use it for good purposes. – Herbert Simon

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Technology
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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. – Antonio Gaudi

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architecture

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. – Jimmy Breslin

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architecture

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. – George Hickenlooper

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architecture

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. – Daniel Libeskind

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It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. – Author Unknown

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Plautus

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I keep working because I learn something new all the time. – Clint Eastwood

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt

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