A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

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

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.