My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel’s faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn’t have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
