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.

  • -- Herbert Simon 西蒙

工程、医学、商业、建筑和绘画所关心的不是必要的东西,而是偶然的东西——不是事物是怎样的,而是它们可能是怎样的——简而言之,与设计有关。

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Her eyes, nose, mouth, skin, all might have been designed in committee to meet the barest requirements of feasibility.

她的眼睛、鼻子、嘴巴、皮肤,所有这些都可能是委员会为满足最基本的可行性要求而设计的。

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

我们有谷物,但没有磨坊,所以我设计了一个特殊的木材磨坊,这样我们就可以做面粉了。