Herbert Simon citations

Herbert Alexander Simon est un économiste et sociologue américain ayant reçu le « prix Nobel » d'économie en 1978.

Il s'est d'abord intéressé à la psychologie cognitive et la rationalité limitée qui constitue le cœur de sa pensée.

Au niveau économique, ses travaux ont interrogé l'efficacité du fordisme et remis en cause les théories néo-classiques.

Ses études sur la rationalité limitée l'ont conduit à s'intéresser aux organisations et aux procédures de décisions ainsi qu'à l'intelligence artificielle dont il est un des pionniers aux États-Unis. Il a reçu avec Allen Newell, en 1975, le prix Turing, principale distinction en informatique. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. juin 1916 – 9. février 2001
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Herbert Simon: Citations en anglais

“For almost every principle one can find an equally plausible and acceptable contradictory principle.”

Herbert A. Simon

Simon, Herbert A. "The proverbs of administration." Public Administration Review 6.1 (1946): 53-67.
1940s-1950s
Contexte: 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.

“… a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…”

Herbert A. Simon

Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.
1960s-1970s
Contexte: In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. 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.

“The principle of bounded rationality [is] the capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world — or even for a reasonable approximation to such objective rationality.”

Herbert A. Simon livre Administrative Behavior

Variante: The principle of bounded rationality [is] the capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world — or even for a reasonable approximation to such objective rationality.
Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 198.

“The world you perceive is drastically simplified model of the real world.”

Herbert A. Simon livre Administrative Behavior

Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. xxvi.

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

Herbert A. Simon

Simon (1956) quoted on CMU Libraries: Problem Solving Research http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/IMLS/MindModels/problemsolving.html <br class="br">1940s-1950s

“We are organization watchers in our role as citizens. Increasing attention has been fixed in recent years upon the functioning of society’s organizations: its large corporations and its governments. Hence this could also be described as a book for Everyman–for it proposes a way of thinking about organizational issues that concern us all.”

Herbert A. Simon

Simon (1975, p. ix); As cited in Stefano Franchi(2006) &quot; Herbert simon, anti-philosopher http://cleinias.org/sites/default/files/Simon-anti-Philosopher-preprint.pdf.&quot; Computing and Philosophy. p. 34. <br class="br">1960s-1970s

“We need to augment and amend the existing body of classical and neoclassical economic theory to achieve a more realistic picture of economic process.”

Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon (1986) in Preface to: Gilad & Kaish (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics, p. xvi.
1980s and later

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