There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. -Herbert Simon Technology
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 Simon Architecture
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. -Herbert Simon Change
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. -Herbert Simon Truth
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. -Herbert Simon Technology
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. -Herbert Simon Knowledge
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 Simon Architecture
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. -Herbert Simon Computers
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. -Herbert Simon Learning
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 Simon Business
