Herbert Simon Men Quotations

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

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

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

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.

Behaving like a manager means having command of the whole range of management skills and applying them as they become appropriate.