A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

- 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

One finds limits by pushing them.

- Herbert Simon

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

- Herbert Simon

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

- 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…

- Herbert Simon

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

- Herbert Simon

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

- Herbert Simon

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

- Herbert Simon