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.

Simon (1975, p. ix); As cited in Stefano Franchi (2006) "Herbert simon, anti-philosopher." Computing and Philosophy. p. 34.