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.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

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

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

One female who knows what to dois better than a thousand males who don't.

To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.

Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

If we don't kill, we will cease to exist

Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.