KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Herbert A. Simon Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

Showing 1-10 of 26 Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

~Herbert A. Simon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 15th, 1916

Died: February 9th, 2001

Links

Find Herbert A. Simon on Amazon

Related Authors

Milton Friedman
John Kenneth Galbraith
Alan Greenspan
Robert Reich
Murray Rothbard
Paul Samuelson
Thomas Sowell
Thorstein Veblen

Popular Authors

Kate Adie Saint Teresa Of Avila Noel Coward Aretha Franklin Phil Mcgraw Friedrich Nietzsche Steven Wright E. E. Cummings

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Death Dreams Environmental History Power Smile Teacher Valentine's Day