Herbert Simon Quotes

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for...

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but ...

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a we...

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better un...

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothin...

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ...

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, e...