AI Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Herbert Simon

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

— Herbert Simon

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

— 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.…

— Herbert Simon

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

— Herbert Simon

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

— 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…

— Herbert Simon

“[Stated in 1965:] Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Herbert Simon