Herbert Simon Quotes - Page 2

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• Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

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  Writing, Learning, Training

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• Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

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  Organization, Decision, Problem

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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.

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  Successful, Kind, Social

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• 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.

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  Simple, Men, Decision

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Creativity

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

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  Running, Fields, Computer

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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.

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  Inspiring, Beautiful, Fear

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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

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  Technology, May, Way

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

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  Use, Facts, Tautology

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• 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.

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  Rain, Clouds, People

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• The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

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  Selfish, Intelligent, Individual

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1997). “Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason”

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

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  Science, Secret, Use

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

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  People, World, Kind

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• The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.

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  Real, Two, Groups

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1957). “Models of man: social and rational; mathematical essays on rational human behavior in society setting”

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• Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature

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  Unique, Thinking, Ems

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

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  Important, Forget, Nobel

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• Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.

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  People, Decision, Encounters

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

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  World, Care, Computer

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