A biography for Herbert A. Simonhasn’t been written yet.
“Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.”
“All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.”
“No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.”
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”
“Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.”
“I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.”