Quotes of Herbert Simon - somelinesforyou

“ 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

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

- 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

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

- 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

“ One finds limits by pushing them. ”

- Herbert Simon

“ 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

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

- Herbert Simon

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

- Herbert Simon

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Herbert Simon

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Herbert Simon

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

- Herbert Simon

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

- Herbert Simon

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

- Herbert Simon

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Herbert Simon

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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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