Herbert A. Simon Quotes

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 A. Simon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001

Topics

BusinessArchitecturePaintingDesign

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Jimi Hendrix

MeWaveDieWhiteDownStreet

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

Angus Young

GoodPeopleGuitarHardRhythmMost

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Jean Kerr

BabyYouPersonNowHaving A Baby

If young children boo me, that makes my day.

Tom Felton

ChildrenDayMeYoungBooMakes

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

Mike Quigley

SomeoneYouTableEconomyAgreement

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

Josef Albers

Talker

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Constance Baker Motley

WhiteClassPopulationMiddleWide

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.

Anne Tyler

LongReadyPageEventsWriteBegin

My wish is to humanize history.

Svetlana Alexievich

HistoryWish

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

I AmNightWake UpThinkProblem

I'm getting tired of 10.7s. I just want to put a good race together, and hopefully in the next race, I get the time I'm working for. I definitely think a 10.6 is there. Hopefully I will get it together.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

GoodTimeTogetherTiredThinkWant

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

Todd Rundgren

TimeMyselfMindVoiceTryingFrame

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