A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. — Herbert Simon Complexes Copy Share Image
Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative… — Herbert Simon Action Copy Share Image
Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole… — Herbert Simon Alternatives Copy Share Image
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Arranging Copy Share Image
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. — Herbert Simon Computer Copy Share Image
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things.… — Herbert Simon Bad people Copy Share Image
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences… — Herbert Simon Hard Copy Share Image
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land… — Herbert Simon Alternatives Copy Share Image
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they… — Herbert Simon Behave Copy Share Image
By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do. — Herbert Simon Can do Copy Share Image
“We live in what might be called a nearly empty world-one in which there are millions of variables that in principle could… — Herbert Simon Time Copy Share Image
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. — Herbert Simon Big Copy Share Image
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its… — Herbert Simon Adapting Copy Share Image
“In the past half century, however, an impressive body of formal theory has been erected by mathematical statisticians and economists to help… — Herbert Simon Different values Copy Share Image
Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance… — Herbert Simon Doe Copy Share Image
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. — Herbert Simon Knowledge Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Able Copy Share Image
