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Herbert A. Simon Quotes

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.

Herbert A. Simon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Knowledge Time Rain Clouds People

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

Education Today Flowers Plants Grow

A lot of coaches are very intense, which is good once you are working, but you don't want that all the time.

Ana Ivanovic

Good Time You Want Intense Working

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Siri Hustvedt

Face Bad Books Tendency Fantasies

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

Family Child Green Writing Thought

I don't avoid any particular food. But I don't eat too much.

Robert Budi Hartono

Food Too Much Eat Avoid Much Any

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

Lukas Haas

You Film Luxuries Low-Budget

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

Loretta Lynn

Mistake Garden Country Build Big

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Jay Weatherill

Change Climate Change Know Cost Left

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

Jared Harris

You Feelings Person Say Playing

Music is a great healer.

Johnny Van Zant

Music Great Healer

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Colin Farrell

Stupid Think Sometimes Just

Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Time Men Dinner Pie Harvest Milk