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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Herbert A. Simon
Born: June 15, 1916
Died: February 9, 2001 (aged 84)
Bio: Herbert Alexander Simon, a Nobel Prize laureate, was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, psychologist, and computer scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science, unified by studies of decision-making.
Known for:
- The Sciences of the Artificial (1969)
- Models of My Life (1991)
- Reason in Human Affairs (1983)
- Models of Thought: Volume I (1979)
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