All Herbert Simon Quotes
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Herbert Simon
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Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Herbert Simon
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No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
Herbert Simon
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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Herbert Simon
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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Herbert Simon
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I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
Herbert Simon
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Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Herbert Simon
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