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I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurab

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. – Donald Norman

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It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format. – Donald Norman

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design
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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. – Donald Norman

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design
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Isnt one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that its basically impossible to use text to show that. – Donald Norman

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This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and were talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics. – Jerry Moran

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. – William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910

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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question How? but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question Why? – Erwin Chargaff

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