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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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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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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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. – Herbert Simon

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Learning
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Science
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Science

Science is global. Einsteins equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races. – Abdul Kalam

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Science

Whats different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. Thats what makes it both powerful and exciting. – Jeremy Rifkin

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Science

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then Id go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Science

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. – Boris Pasternak

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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Equality

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think its tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. – Mike Krzyzewski

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respect

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Obedience