Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
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Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.Herbert Simon
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
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In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
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
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
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
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