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

— Herbert Simon

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On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

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One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

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To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

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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 Simon

#among #attention #consume #consumes #creates

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#bad #bad people #doing #expands #good

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. ↗

— Paul Simon

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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

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

— Herbert Simon

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