Herbert Simon Quotes - Page 2

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

  Herbert Simon

  Use, Facts, Tautology

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• 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

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  Technology, May, Way

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• Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

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  Organization, Decision, Problem

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• 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.

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  People, Decision, Encounters

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• 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.

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  Successful, Kind, Social

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• 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.

  Herbert Simon

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Fear

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• 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.

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  Fire, Average, Land

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• 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.

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  Exercise, Actors, Action

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1947). “Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization”

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• 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.

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  Simple, Men, Decision

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• Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Creativity

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

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  Running, Fields, Computer

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• Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

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  Rain, Clouds, People

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• The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

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  Selfish, Intelligent, Individual

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1997). “Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason”

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• Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

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  People, World, Kind

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• 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.

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  Real, Two, Groups

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1957). “Models of man: social and rational; mathematical essays on rational human behavior in society setting”

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• 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

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  Unique, Thinking, Ems

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• Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

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  Important, Forget, Nobel

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• I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

  Herbert Simon

  World, Care, Computer

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