The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. -Herbert Simon

 

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Herbert Simon quotes in our collection. Herbert Simon is known for saying 'The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon

One finds limits by pushing them.

Herbert Simon

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Herbert Simon

[By 1985], machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Herbert Simon