Herbert A. Simon
A Nobel laureate who made significant contributions to cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and decision-making, co-developing early AI programs.
Quotes by Herbert A. Simon
The human mind is a limited resource.
The world is a design problem.
The computer is a tool for exploring new ideas.
The most important thing in life is to be happy.
The human mind is a pattern-matching machine.
The world is a system of interacting processes.
The computer is a tool for making better decisions.
The most important thing in science is to be open-minded.
The human mind is a symbol-processing system.
The world is a complex adaptive system.
The capacity of human beings to behave rationally is limited; that they are boundedly rational.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
Human problem solving is a form of skilled perception.
The engineer is a symbol of the rational society.
In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.
Learning is any process by which a system improves performance from experience.
Rational behavior is behavior which is appropriate to the achievement of given goals, within the limits imposed by the situation and the capacity of the decision maker.
The proper way to study decision making is to study the actual decisions made by people.
Organizations are satisficing systems, not optimizing systems.
The choice of a model depends on the questions we want to answer.