I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
More Quotes from Herbert Simon:
What a person cannot do he will not do, no matter how much he wants to do it. Normative economics has shown that exact solutions to the larger optimization problems of the real world are simply not within reach or sight. ... the behavior of an artificial system may be strongly influenced by the limits of its adaptive capacities.Herbert Simon
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Herbert Simon
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon
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
The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.
Herbert Simon
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Herbert Simon
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