62 Quotes by Herbert Simon

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

One finds limits by pushing them.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

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.

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

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

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.

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