Herbert Simon

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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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 Simon

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The proper study of mankind is the science of design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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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

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In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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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 Simon

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