Herbert A. Simon

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.