The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

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

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

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