What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
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 A. Simon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 seeding clouds. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
