Quote by Herbert Simon
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in c

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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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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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If were bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if were good people we use it for good purposes. – Herbert Simon

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Technology
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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

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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrews cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neos choice to know the truth. Its a beautiful, beautiful story. – Keanu Reeves

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Knowledge

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Knowledge

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein

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My mama told me in college, I love you, and youre Gods child, but natural beauty will only take you so far. – Robin Roberts

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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, youre bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! – Georges Bernanos

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Few people have the imagination for reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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