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Top 10 Herbert A. Simon Quotes (2025 Update)

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. 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.”

1. “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. 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 A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “The great enemy of foreign language learning is a sense of shame, an inability or unwillingness to become like a child again and let one’s inadequacies show.”

2. “The great enemy of foreign language learning is a sense of shame, an inability or unwillingness to become like a child again and let one’s inadequacies show.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “Artificial intelligence has had much the same effect as Darwin’s theory. Both aroused in some people anxieties about their own uniqueness, value and worth.”

3. “Artificial intelligence has had much the same effect as Darwin’s theory. Both aroused in some people anxieties about their own uniqueness, value and worth.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “We measure our success not only by the quality of teaching and research on our own campus, but by our influence on intellectual and educational trends in the nation and internationally.”

4. “We measure our success not only by the quality of teaching and research on our own campus, but by our influence on intellectual and educational trends in the nation and internationally.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “You do not change people’s minds by defeating them with logic.”

5. “You do not change people’s minds by defeating them with logic.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friederich von Hayek who, in the decades after World War II, was their leading interpreter and defender. His defense did not rest primarily upon the supposed optimum attained by them but rather upon the limits of the inner environment – the computational limits of human beings:31.”

6. “No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friederich von Hayek who, in the decades after World War II, was their leading interpreter and defender. His defense did not rest primarily upon the supposed optimum attained by them but rather upon the limits of the inner environment – the computational limits of human beings:31.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “To make interesting scientific discoveries, you should acquire as many good friends as possible who are energetic, intelligent and knowledgeable as they can be. You will find all the programs you need are stored in your friends, and will execute productively and creatively as long as you don’t interfere too much.”

7. “To make interesting scientific discoveries, you should acquire as many good friends as possible who are energetic, intelligent and knowledgeable as they can be. You will find all the programs you need are stored in your friends, and will execute productively and creatively as long as you don’t interfere too much.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “Anything you cannot communicate without reading will be forgotten instantly.”

8. “Anything you cannot communicate without reading will be forgotten instantly.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “An entrepreneur is a broker between ideas and resources. This is not confined to business; it is at least as much at home in academia. Faculty members write their dreams of undiscovered truths in research proposals addressed persuasively to foundations and government agencies.”

9. “An entrepreneur is a broker between ideas and resources. This is not confined to business; it is at least as much at home in academia. Faculty members write their dreams of undiscovered truths in research proposals addressed persuasively to foundations and government agencies.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “There is no use in lecturing unless a class is listening. And they will only listen if you are saying something they think they can understand and seems relevant. If you pace up and down you can tell from their moving head whether they are following you.”

10. “There is no use in lecturing unless a class is listening. And they will only listen if you are saying something they think they can understand and seems relevant. If you pace up and down you can tell from their moving head whether they are following you.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “In essence our failure was a vivid demonstration, which I have never forgotten, that theories, however plausible and “obviously” valid, can be destroyed totally by the obstinate facts of the real world. Davis had brought us an unbeatable scheme for raising cattle profitably. The cattle had a different scheme. No doubt my later deep skepticism of the a priorism of mainstream economics had some of its origins in this experience.”

11. “In essence our failure was a vivid demonstration, which I have never forgotten, that theories, however plausible and “obviously” valid, can be destroyed totally by the obstinate facts of the real world. Davis had brought us an unbeatable scheme for raising cattle profitably. The cattle had a different scheme. No doubt my later deep skepticism of the a priorism of mainstream economics had some of its origins in this experience.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “Teaching is not entertainment, but it is unlikely to be successful unless it is interesting.”

12. “Teaching is not entertainment, but it is unlikely to be successful unless it is interesting.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “Coverage of material is a snare and a delusion. You begin where students are prepared to begin; and you carry them as far as you can without losing them.”

13. “Coverage of material is a snare and a delusion. You begin where students are prepared to begin; and you carry them as far as you can without losing them.”

— Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon Quote: “We have adopted the policy of Sorel of propaganda of the deed. The best rhetoric comes from building and testing models and running experiments. Let philosophers weave webs of words; such webs break easily.”

14. “We have adopted the policy of Sorel of propaganda of the deed. The best rhetoric comes from building and testing models and running experiments. Let philosophers weave webs of words; such webs break easily.”

— Herbert A. Simon

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