73 Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

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.

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.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

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.

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

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.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

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

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