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

One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Herbert Simon

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
Herbert Simon

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Herbert Simon

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

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon