Herbert Simon Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Herbert Simon quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“One finds limits by pushing them.”
“There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.”
“The proper study of mankind is the science of design.”
“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.”
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.”
“Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.”
“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.”
“In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.”
“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.”
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