Quote by Herbert Simon
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon

Other quotes by 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

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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

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

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design
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Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. – Author Unknown

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. – Arthur C. Clarke

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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. Its not a miracle we just decided to go. – Tom Hanks

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Science

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen

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The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. – Ludwig Quidde

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell

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There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games. – Ernest Hemingway

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I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with poet written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it. – Jon McGregor

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