In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.

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

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