Herbert Simon Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

  Herbert Simon

  Death, Design, Study

  "Clive Dilnot’s Speech at Graduation Ceremony of MA Design Studies 2016 class". adht.parsons.edu. June 13, 2016.

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

  Herbert Simon

  Mean, Design, Problem

• 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.

  Herbert Simon

  Medicine, Engineering, Design

• Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.

  Herbert Simon

  Sick, Design, Intellectual

  "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.

• Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

  Herbert Simon

  Thinking, Design Process, Generations

• Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

  Herbert Simon

  Death, Design, Action

  "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.

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