A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

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

The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.

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.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.