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«Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state. Design, so constructed, is the core of all professional training: is the principal mark that distinguises the professions from the sciences. Schools of engineering, as well as schools of architecture, business, education, law, and medicine, are all centrally concerned with the process of design.»

Herbert Alexander Simon (1916-2001)

Herbert A. Simon, The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial. Design Issues. Vol. 4, No. 1/2, Designing the Immaterial Society (1988), p. 67. Published by The MIT Press.