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Herbert Alexander Simon
(15 Jun 1916 - 9 Feb 2001)
American social scientist.
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Science Quotes by Herbert Alexander Simon (2 quotes)
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingentnot with how things are but with how they might bein short, with design.
— Herbert Alexander Simon
In The Sciences of the Artificial (1996), xii.
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 Alexander Simon
From 'Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World', quoted in Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest (1971), 40-41.
See also:
- 15 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Simon's birth.
- The Sciences of the Artificial, by Herbert Alexander Simon. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
