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> [Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/assuming-that-a-tax-increase-is-necessary-it-is-clearly-preferable-to/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/engineering-medicine-business-architecture-and-painting-are-concerned/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/technology-may-create-a-condition-but-the-questions-are-what-do-we-do/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/the-world-is-vast-beautiful-and-fascinating-even-awe-inspiring-but/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/innovation-has-a-lot-to-do-with-your-ability-to-recognise-surprising/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/all-correct-reasoning-is-a-grand-system-of-tautologies-but-only-god/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [“We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to get there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/we-see-that-reason-is-wholly-instrumental-it-cannot-tell-us-where-to/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/it-is-not-my-aim-to-surprise-or-shock-you-but-the-simplest-way-i-can/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/no-one-has-characterized-market-mechanisms-better-than-friedrich-von/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/one-of-the-first-rules-of-science-is-if-somebody-delivers-a-secret/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/the-engineer-and-more-generally-the-designer-is-concerned-with-how/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [ “\[Stated in 1965:\] Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/stated-in-1965-machines-will-be-capable-within-20-years-of-doing-any/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [“Reason, then, goes to work only after it has been supplied with a suitable set of inputs, or premises. If reason is to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/reason-then-goes-to-work-only-after-it-has-been-supplied-with-a/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/the-aim-is-to-provide-a-clear-and-rigorous-basis-for-determining-when/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

> [What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/what-information-consumes-is-rather-obvious-it-consumes-the-attention/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/most-of-us-really-aren-t-horribly-unique-there-are-6-billion-of-us/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

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