Herbert A. Simon Quotes

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

Herbert A. Simon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

Jesmyn Ward

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The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.

Andrew Yang

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I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Indy is my home. It's part of me; it's in my DNA.

Robert Mathis

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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Max Beckmann

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Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.

Rose Leslie

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I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

Michael Palin

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There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

DMX

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Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

Dolores Huerta

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I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

Colin Kaepernick

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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Bruno Latour

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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell

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