In The Computer Field, The Moment Of

Learning Is Any Change In A System That Produces A More Or Less Permanent Change In Its Capacity For Adapting To Its Environment.

Anything That Gives Us New Knowledge Gives Us An Opportunity To Be More Rational.

The Proper Study Of Mankind Is The Science Of Design.

Engineers Are Not The Only Professional Designers. Everyone Designs Who Devises Courses Of Action Aimed At Changing Existing Situations Into Preferred Ones. The Intellectual Activity That Produces Material Artefacts Is No Different Fundamentally From The One That Prescribes Remedies For A Sick Patient Or The One That Devises A New Sales Plan For A Company Or A Social Welfare Policy For A State.

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.