“ I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. 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. Herbert Simon
“ 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
“ Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. 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. Herbert Simon
“ In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. 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… 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… 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… 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… Herbert Simon
“ One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. Herbert Simon
“ The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. Herbert Simon
