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• Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance…
• Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are…
• One finds limits by pushing them.
• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of…
• Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are…
• Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its…
• Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
• There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things.…
• Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they…
• The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
• The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in…
• Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

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