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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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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