Before a science can develop principles, it must possess concepts. Bef — Herbert A. Simon

"The techniques of the practitioner are usually called synthetic. He designs by organizing known principles and devices into larger systems."

"Most of the propositions that make up the body of administrative theory today share, unfortunately, this defect of proverbs. For almost every principle one can find an equally plausible and acceptable contradictory principle."

"Over Christmas, Allen Newell and I created a thinking machine."

"Broadly stated, the task is to replace the global rationality of economic man with a kind of rational behavior that is compatible with the access to information and the computational capacities that are actually possessed by organisms, including man, in the kinds of environments in which such organisms exist."

"It is not my aim to surprise or shock you – but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn and that create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until – in a visible future – the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied."

"The criterion of efficiency dictates that choice of alternatives which produces the largest result for the given application of resources."