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Herbert Simon quotes

American Scientist June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. Herbert Simon
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. Herbert Simon
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinatin? even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. Herbert Simon
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
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. Herbert Simon
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. Herbert Simon
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. Herbert Simon
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon quote: "Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at..."
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon quote: "Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided..."
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly. Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon quote: "All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but..."
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon quote: "Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity..."
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon quote: "The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
The proper study of mankind is the science of design. Herbert Simon
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. Herbert Simon
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. Herbert Simon

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