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.

One finds limits by pushing them.

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

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

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

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

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature