Category - Herbert A Simon

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Herbert A Simon

You can love two or more women at once… but you cannot be loyal to more than one.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

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

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn’t have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel’s faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

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

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

Time and again, we have found the ‘idle’ truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

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.

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

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

– Herbert A Simon

Herbert A Simon

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

– Herbert A Simon

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