Herbert Simon Quotes

One Of The First Rules Of Science Is If Somebody Delivers A Secret Weapon To You, You Better Use It

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.

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

I Don't Care How Big And Fast Computers Are, They're Not As Big And Fast As The World.

Assuming That A Tax Increase Is Necessary, It Is Clearly Preferable To Impose The Additional Cost On Land By Increasing The Land Tax, Rather Than To Increase The Wage Tax - The Two Alternatives Open To The City (of Pittsburgh). It Is The Use And Occupancy Of Property That Creates The Need For The Municipal Services That Appear As The Largest Item In The Budget - Fire And Police Protection, Waste Removal, And Public Works. The Average Increase In Tax Bills Of City Residents Will Be About Twice As Great With Wage Tax Increase Than With A Land Tax Increase.

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.

Forget About Nobel Prizes; They Aren't Really Very Important.

All Behavior Involves Conscious Or Unconscious Selection Of Particular Actions Out Of All Those Which Are Physically Possible To The Actor And To Those Persons Over Whom He Exercises Influence And Authority.

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

The Intelligent Altruists, Though Less Altruistic Than Unintelligent Altruists, Will Be Fitter Than Both Unintelligent Altruists And Selfish Individuals.

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.

Maybe We Ought To Have A World In Which Things Are Divided Between People Kind Of Fairly.