Maybe We Ought To Have

Solving A Problem Simply Means Representing It So As To Make The Solution Transparent.

Human Beings, Viewed As Behaving Systems, Are Quite Simple. The Apparent Complexity Of Our Behavior Over Time Is Largely A Reflection Of The Complexity Of The Environment In Which We Find Ourselves.

Most Of What We Do To Get People Ready To Act In Situations Of Encounter Consists Of Drilling These Lists Into Them Sufficiently Deeply So That They Will Be Evoked Quickly At The Time Of The Decision.

The Social Sciences, I Thought, Needed The Same Kind Of Rigor And The Same Mathematical Underpinnings That Had Made The 'hard' Sciences So Brilliantly Successful.

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.