73 Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.