Herbert 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 Simon

#behaving #behavior #beings #complexity #environment

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 Simon

#world #beauty

One finds limits by pushing them. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#limits #pushing #them

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

— Herbert Simon

#gives #knowledge #more #new #new knowledge

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 Simon

#concerned #designer #engineer #function #generally

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

— Herbert Simon

#direct #fact #god #grand #make

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

— Herbert Simon

#forget #important #nobel #prizes #really

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

— Herbert Simon

#care #computers #fast #how #i

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

— Herbert Simon

#action #aimed #changing #courses #designs

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#any #capacity #change #environment #learning