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 SimonMost of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them suf๏ฌciently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.
Herbert SimonEngineering, 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 SimonMathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.
Herbert Simon