In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
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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
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
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Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
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Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
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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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.
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