The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the hard sciences so brilliantly successful.

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Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em...

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em...

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

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

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change...

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change...

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

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

One finds limits by pushing them.

One finds limits by pushing them.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about...

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about...

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast...

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast...

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave...

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave...

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a...

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a...

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing...

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing...

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

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

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

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

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the...

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the...

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind...

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind...

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

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

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior...

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior...

Complexity emerges from unexpected outcomes it is also used as a tool of repression.

Complexity emerges from unexpected outcomes it is also used as a tool of repression.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

There are forms of complexity in all people...Always update your state of mind.

There are forms of complexity in all people...Always update your state of mind.