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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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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon

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Science
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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. – Tadao Ando

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architecture

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. – Michael Graves

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architecture

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. – Marilyn Hacker

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architecture

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. – Richard Meier

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architecture

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Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist. – Terri Guillemets

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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison

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I travel around and hear from so many kids. Their parents say they were always very picky but they watch the show and they want to try stuff. The show is entertainment, but I think it has done so much for the public perception of what food can be. – Tom Colicchio

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Suddenly life has new meaning to me, theres beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly youre in love. – Billy Ocean

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