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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

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

Tags: computers, world, care, fast

One finds limits by pushing them.

Herbert Simon

One finds limits by pushing them.

Tags: limits, finds, them

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Herbert Simon may refer to:

Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), American political scientist and economist
Herbert Simon (real estate) (born 1934), American real estate developer

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

Herbert Simon

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

Tags: design, action, changing, everyone

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.

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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.

Tags: architecture, business, design, short

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Herbert Simon

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Tags: design, science, mankind, study

Human 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 se...

Herbert Simon

Human 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 se...

Tags: knowledge

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

Herbert Simon

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

Tags: knowledge, opportunity, new, anything

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

Herbert Simon

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

Tags: learning, change, environment, system

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...

Herbert 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...

Tags: nature

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

Herbert Simon

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

Tags: science

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...

Herbert Simon

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...

Tags: technology, good, thinking, good people

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

Herbert Simon

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

Tags: technology, questions, better, find

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 efficientl...

Herbert Simon

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 efficientl...

Tags: philosophy

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

Herbert Simon

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

Tags: moment, truth is, computer