Quotes by Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

Decision

Drawing

Rivers

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Attention

Information

Poverty

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

Action

Actors

Exercise

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

Facts

Tautology

Use

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Giving

Opportunity

Rational

Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax – the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget – fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.

Average

Fire

Land

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

Decision

Men

Simple

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Can Do

Machines

Men

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Beautiful

Creativity

Flower

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.

Design

Engineering

Medicine

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Accidents Happen

Action

Actors

Attention

Average

Beautiful

Business

Can Do

Care

Chaos

Clouds

Computer

Creativity

Death

Decision

Design

Design Process

Designer

Drawing

Ems

Encounters

Engineering

Enlightenment

Environment

Exercise

Experts

Facts

Fear

Fields

Fire

Flower

Forget

Generations

Giving

Goal

Groups

Hayek

Humans

Important

Individual

Information

Innovation

Inspiring

Intellectual

Intelligent

Interesting

Intuition

Kind

Knows

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Quotes by Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

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

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

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.

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