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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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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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Other Quotes from
architecture
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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

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults – Curtis W. Fentress

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architecture

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, thats both liberating and alarming. – Rem Koolhaas

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architecture

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. – Arthur Erickson

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architecture

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I dont want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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movies

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. – Edgar A. Shoaff

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Advertising

Once youre halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. – Janis Ian

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I have seen the sea when it is strormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself. – Martin D. Buxbaum (1912–1991), in Table Talk

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Water