"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
"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."
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Source: The Sciences of the Artificial. Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.
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