Quote by Herbert Simon
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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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon

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Information
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

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A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. – Paul Davies

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I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. – William Bernbach

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Science is a self-sufficient activity. – Jonathan Miller

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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. – Billy Graham

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People dont realize that Im really funny and Im an excellent bridge player. – Sheryl Crow

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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. – Jean-Luc Godard

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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that were sure of. – Vidal Sassoon

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