Quote by Herbert Simon
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing e

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. – Herbert Simon

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Learning
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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

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Information
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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

Category:
architecture
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design
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I did not direct my life. I didnt design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. Thats what life is. – B. F. Skinner

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design

Retail is detail. – James Gulliver

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design

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. – Bill Gates

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design

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature. – Roberto Cavalli

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design

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One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. – Mo Rocca

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Christmas

But I think its more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups. – Jose Mourinho

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Success

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. – John Gay

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Love :: Kisses

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. – Cory Doctorow

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amazing