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.
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… - Herbert Simon
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…
- Herbert Simon
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. - Herbert Simon
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
One finds limits by pushing them. - Herbert Simon
One finds limits by pushing them.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attentio… - Herbert Simon
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attentio…
Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds. - Herbert Simon
Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design. - Herbert Simon
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. - Herbert Simon
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek - Herbert Simon
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek
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