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

Other quotes by Herbert Simon

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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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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I am but an architectural composer. – Alexander Jackson Davis

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architecture

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. – David Allan Coe

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architecture

Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

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architecture

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill

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architecture

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Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. – Honore de Balzac

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