By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote
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 efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote