Herbert Simon's Profile
Brief about Herbert Simon: By info that we know Herbert Simon was born at 1916-06-15. And also Herbert Simon is American Scientist.
Some Herbert Simon's quotes. Goto "Herbert Simon's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Attention, Poverty, RatherEngineering, 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.
Tags: Business, Design, ShortLearning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Tags: Change, Learning, LessEveryone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Tags: Action, Design, EveryoneThere 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.
Tags: Bad, Good, TechnologyOne finds limits by pushing them.
Tags: Limits, Motivational, PushingHuman knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
Tags: Knowledge, Rain, TimeAll correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
Tags: Fact, God, SystemThe engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Tags: Engineer, Goals, OrderMost 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.
Tags: Nature, Put, RatherAnything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Tags: Gives, Knowledge, RationalI don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
Tags: Big, Care, ComputersIn the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Tags: Else, Moment, TruthMaybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Tags: Between, Divided, MaybeNo one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
Tags: Hayek, Market, MechanismsOne of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
Tags: Science, Secret, SomebodyThe world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
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