29 Herbert A. Simon Quotes for You to Enjoy

Herbert A. Simon

American Economist

Born: Jun 15, 1916

Died: Feb 9, 2001

Knowledge Me Science Think Time World

Related authors: Alan Greenspan John Kenneth Galbraith Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Peter Navarro Richard Thaler Robert Reich Thomas Sowell

One finds limits by pushing them. Herbert A. Simon

Motivational Finds Pushing Limits Them

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean. Herbert A. Simon

Words Like Make Want Anything Mean Them

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. Herbert A. Simon

Good Technology People Bad People Good People Thinking Our Ways Bad About Morals Purposes Doing Use Things

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert A. Simon

Action Design Changing Everyone Courses Existing Situations Preferred Who Designs

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior. Herbert A. Simon

Environmental Nature Knowledge Peace World Behavior Problems Poverty Understanding Energy Our Resources Broaden Mineral Hunger Must Laws Deal Human Human Behavior Pollution Population Deepen

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert A. Simon

Wealth Poverty Recipients Rather Allocate Consume Consumes Attention Obvious Sources Efficiently Information Might Creates Hence Among Need

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population. Herbert A. Simon

Science Few Holding Settlement Economic Area Empire Over Economists Bulk Density Very Uneven Size Modest Whole Population

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics. Herbert A. Simon

Mathematics Knowledge Together Science Training Political Economics Broad Latter Systematically Statistics Logic Able Self Advanced Study Combination Well Continuing Mathematical Political Science Formal Gain Skills Reasonable Base Symbolic

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

You Science Better Somebody First Secret Secret Weapon Rules Weapon Use

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 A. Simon

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. Herbert A. Simon

Nature Worth Few Think Ought Our Out Would Ability Horribly Rather Part Put Individuals Over Along Most Terms Lords Very Than Get Maybe Being Room Us Really Stand Billion Unique