Ability Quote by Herbert Simon

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“Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.”

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Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better…

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The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of…

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

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“We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to get there.…

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“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in…

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No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

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

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“[Stated in 1965:] Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.”

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“Reason, then, goes to work only after it has been supplied with a suitable set of inputs, or premises. If reason is to be…

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