One Finds Limits By Pushing

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

The Simplest Scheme Of Evolution Is One That Depends On Two Processes; A Generator And A Test. The Task Of The Generator Is To Produce Variety, New Forms That Have Not Existed Previously, Whereas The Task Of The Test Is To Cull Out The Newly Generated Forms So That Only Those That Are Well Fitted To The Environment Will Survive.

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.

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.

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.