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
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. – Herbert Simon
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. – Herbert Simon
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. – Herbert Simon
If you asked somebody, what do you wish for in life? they wouldnt say happiness. I would have answered excitement, knowledge, God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not happiness. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. – Connie Nielsen