Herbert A. Simon Quotes

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.

Herbert A. Simon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MathematicsEconomicsThinkingTalk

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Robert Kiyosaki

EducationFinancialImportantBoth

Life is not just about singing.

Anna Netrebko

LifeSingingJustAbout

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Robert Dallek

VoiceCongressOppositionPublic

Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Haidt

GoodBusinessGovernmentSocietySee

Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.

Johnny Van Zant

BrotherPeopleNightGoSayWant

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.

David Weinberger

AgeKnowledgePastWaitingInternet

I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.

Christopher Guest

WorkBusinessMeThinkI CanPlace

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

Christo

PeopleBelieveLookPlaceNewTalk

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Brad Sherman

GreatSkillWeakPolicyForeign

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

Bruce Cockburn

GoodWarThinkPersonGood Idea

Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.

Peter Beard

SmartLikeLogicalElephantsVery

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Todd Rokita

LearningI AmMeLooking ForwardHe

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Herbert A. Simon