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.

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

The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

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