Quote by Herbert Simon
Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us

Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. – 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

Category:
Information
Read Quote

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
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Nature seems at each mans birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Nature

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Nature

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. – Fran Lebowitz

Category:
Nature

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Anything youre trying to will is focused on the future its always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. – Martha Beck

Category:
Future

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Category:
Doubt

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. – Ovid

Category:
Support

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership. – Jim Cooper

Category:
Leadership