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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
"Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly."
"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"You cannot force a dry well to yield water."
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"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."
"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds."
"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."
"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."
"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."
"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
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