Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. – Herbert Simon
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. – Herbert Simon
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon
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. – Herbert Simon