Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do.
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.
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
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.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.