The Proper Study Of Mankind Is The

The Intelligent Altruists, Though Less Altruistic Than Unintelligent Altruists, Will Be Fitter Than Both Unintelligent Altruists And Selfish Individuals.

A Complex Decision Is Like A Great River, Drawing From Its Many Tributaries The Innumerable Premises Of Which It Is Constituted.

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.

Assuming That A Tax Increase Is Necessary, It Is Clearly Preferable To Impose The Additional Cost On Land By Increasing The Land Tax, Rather Than To Increase The Wage Tax - The Two Alternatives Open To The City (of Pittsburgh). It Is The Use And Occupancy Of Property That Creates The Need For The Municipal Services That Appear As The Largest Item In The Budget - Fire And Police Protection, Waste Removal, And Public Works. The Average Increase In Tax Bills Of City Residents Will Be About Twice As Great With Wage Tax Increase Than With A Land Tax Increase.

Think Of The Design Process As Involving First The Generation Of Alternatives And Then The Testing Of These Alternatives Against A Whole Array Of Requirements And Restraints.