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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.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

Herbert A. 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 A. Simon

The 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.

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

One finds limits by pushing them.

Herbert A. 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 good people we use it for good purposes.

Herbert A. 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 A. Simon

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

Herbert A. Simon

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

Herbert A. Simon

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Herbert A. Simon

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

Herbert A. Simon

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

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

Herbert A. Simon

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

Herbert A. Simon

You can love two or more women at once... but you cannot be loyal to more than one.

Herbert A. Simon

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

Herbert A. Simon

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

Herbert A. Simon

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Herbert A. 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 A. Simon

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

Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.

Herbert A. Simon

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

Herbert A. Simon

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Herbert A. Simon

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon