American - Economist | June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001
You can love two or more women at once... but you cannot be loyal to more than one.
Herbert A. Simon
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The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
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No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
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Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
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Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
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The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
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I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.
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My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
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The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.
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