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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

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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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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

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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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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. – Hermann Hesse

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Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. – Bhumibol Adulyadej

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