By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.
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The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.Herbert Simon
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Herbert Simon
Behaving like a manager means having command of the whole range of management skills and applying them as they become appropriate.
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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.
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I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. But it doesn't work a darn for the other social sciences you lose most of the content when you translate them to numbers.
Herbert Simon
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
Herbert Simon
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