Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are… — Herbert Simon Architecture Copy Share Image
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and… — Herbert Simon Create Copy Share Image
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand… — Herbert Simon Beautiful Copy Share Image
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena. — Herbert Simon Ability Copy Share Image
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. — Herbert Simon Direct Copy Share Image
“We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are… — Herbert Simon AI Copy Share Image
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. — Herbert Simon Better Copy Share Image
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. — Herbert Simon Better Copy Share Image
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in… — Herbert Simon Concerned Copy Share Image
“[Stated in 1965:] Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.” — Herbert Simon AI Copy Share Image
“Reason, then, goes to work only after it has been supplied with a suitable set of inputs, or premises. If reason is… — Herbert Simon Logic Copy Share Image
The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold… — Herbert Simon Aim Copy Share Image
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of… — Herbert Simon Attention Copy Share Image
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few… — Herbert Simon Ability Copy Share Image
The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator… — Herbert Simon Biology Copy Share Image
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly. — Herbert Simon Divided Copy Share Image
Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under… — Herbert Simon Beautiful Copy Share Image
“These are the four principal components of the SEU model: a cardinal utility function, an exhaustive set of alternative strategies, a probability… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.… — Herbert Simon Action Copy Share Image
Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them… — Herbert Simon Decision Copy Share Image
“What can we say for and about this behavioral version, this bounded rationality version, of human thinking and problem solving? The first… — Herbert Simon Human behavior Copy Share Image
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call… — Herbert Simon Human beings Copy Share Image
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. — Herbert Simon Forget Copy Share Image
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent. — Herbert Simon Design Copy Share Image
