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This quote is just one of 8 total Herbert Simon quotes in our collection. Herbert Simon is known for saying 'One finds limits by pushing them.' 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.
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.
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.
This quote is just one of 8 total Herbert Simon quotes in our collection. Herbert Simon is known for saying 'One finds limits by pushing them.' as well as some of the following quotes.