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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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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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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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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think its magical. – Maya Lin

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