Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

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

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.

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

One finds limits by pushing them.