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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret

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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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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Herbert Simon
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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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architecture
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Herbert Simon
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Were uncomfortable about considering history as a science. Its classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. – Jared Diamond

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Science

Theyve also asked me now to start on another series that were gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But its not science fiction, its more in the Mystery and Crime division and thats another area Im very interested in. – Bruce Boxleitner

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Science

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. – Wernher von Braun

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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. – Miguel de Unamuno

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Science

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The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going. – Philip Crosby

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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. – Agnes Repplier

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to peoples sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. – Brit Hume

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Women didnt want to be on the stage with other women because they didnt want their bodies to be compared. They didnt want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude. – Kathleen Hanna

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