Design
Considerations for building new products
Design
We might be more optimistic if we recognized that we do not have to solve all of these problems. Our essential task—a big enough one to be sure—is simply to keep open the options for the future or perhaps even to broaden them a bit by creating new variety and new niches.
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
A paradoxical, but perhaps realistic, view of design goals is that their function is to motivate activity which in turn will generate new goals.
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
Things that happen very seldom we all leave out of our calculations, whether they are miraculous or not.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
If you read the book "Noise" from Kahneman et al. you will see that noise of decision (e.g. over different persons) can be reduced by skipping the weights and just adding up the scores -- Equal Weighting Model
Art is to have the intellect and all its instruments on the spot and ready to go to the point;
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
This makes me think of the point/purpose of Sublime app
For definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight; and they fight fair.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
We know the meaning of all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate. And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying ‘These things are.’ It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, ‘Why cannot these things be?’
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.