Decision making is the heart of administration, and the heart of decision making is art rather than science.
决策是行政的核心,而决策的核心是艺术而非科学。
Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.
The capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world.
与在现实世界中实现客观理性行为所需解决的问题规模相比,人类心智制定和解决复杂问题的能力非常有限。
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.
被视为行为系统的人类其实相当简单。我们行为表面上的复杂性很大程度上反映了我们所处环境的复杂性。
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.
解决问题仅仅意味着以某种方式表示它,以使解决方案变得透明。
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
信息消耗的东西相当明显:它消耗接收者的注意力。因此,信息的丰富导致注意力的贫乏。
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
学习是系统中产生的任何变化,这些变化或多或少会永久性地改变其适应环境的能力。
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
信息的丰富导致注意力的贫乏。
The meaning of "knowing" has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.
"知道"的含义已经从能够记住和重复信息转变为能够找到并使用信息。