"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."

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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."

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"I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

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"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."

Daniel Keys Moran, American Writer

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Design, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."

Michael Graves, American Architect

Design, Goal, Career

"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

Ivan Chermayeff, British Designer

Design, Problems, Solution

"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Design, Truth, Faith, Power, Wisdom

"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Design, Work, Calling, Purpose

"I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

Design, Fact, Learning, Machines

"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

Design, Books, Computer, Open

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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Explore more quotes by Herbert Simon

"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."

Goal

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

Change

"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."

Time

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

Science

"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational."

Knowledge

"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy."

Truth

"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."

Design

"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."

Nature

"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."

Technology

"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."

Architecture