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Category: Herbert Simon

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

Opportunity, New, Anything

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Change, Environment, System

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Design, Mankind, Study

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

World, Care, Fast

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.

Architecture, Design, Short

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.