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.

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

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

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

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

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