"The proper study of mankind is the science…" — Herbert Simon
"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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24 Quotes by Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon has 24 quotes on this site.
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Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher…
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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we…
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One finds limits by pushing them.
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a…
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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how…
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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting…
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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of…
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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did…
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The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to…
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Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
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All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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