Talk:Herbert A. Simon

message: A lot of people have been trying to undo the phrase about Simon being, by training, a political scientist. It strikes me that if he was trained in political science and had a Ph.D. in political scientist, then he was a political scientist. If he later went on to do research in computer science, then that makes him a polymath. Why would you eliminate the specificity of this man being a political scientist? Perhaps I should go through and change all mentions of economists who worked in other fields to "Social Scientist"?
This article is a good tribute to an amazing scholar, and innovator.But as a person from a different academic field, I have been deeply influenced by his book ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOR. His treatment of bounded rationality has over many years been a beacon for me.I would like to develop an additional section for this article summarizing  this work. Unfortunately I was not able to follow Professor Simon into his subsequent work on computer programming and computer science. Perhaps someone else would like to take up following this theme into those areas.
I fail to see why his having been a political scientist implies that he was not also a computer scientist. He spent most of his time and effort on computer science and made major contributions to it. My objection here is to the disambiguation page, which doesn't mention it!!
68.220.6.164 03:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undoing phrases about Simon being 

message: Too many categories in this article : would it be possible to reduce to the more important ? Chrisdel 07:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the guideline. Maybe then an Article series boxes (or navigational templates) would be useful ? Chrisdel 19:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Follow the guideline link above : on the bottom of the page there is this link Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes, see paragraph "Article series boxes". Rgds. Chrisdel 03:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Too many categories

message: i think simon is most famous to the gen public for his quote, if something can't go on forever it won't
can someone source this and put it in ?65.220.64.105 (talk) 18:54, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: his famous quote

message: He has influenced lots of people. I guess we limit what is in his page. On the Dixon thing, he said "I would like to acknowledge my debt to the writings of Herbert Simon: whilst I have not referenced his works explicitly or in detail, his ideas were formative in my 
education and have clearly influenced the way I look at things. " (http://huwdixon.org/SurfingEconomics/chapter8.pdf). Dossi too. maybe they should be there?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.150.33 (talk) 23:34, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, we don't have to limit anything. The infobox is a summary of what's in the article. If it's not put into the article, it shouldn't be put in the infobox. Simple. Some of this may belong in the articles of the influenced, rather than here, especially if the influence is not direct. Yworo (talk) 01:04, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: influenced by

message: This section is missing a detailed explanation of what drove Herbert Simon to study decision-making. Suggested addition: Simon has been critical of traditional economics’ elementary understanding of decision-making, and argues it ‘is too quick to build an idealistic, unrealistic picture of the decision-making process and then prescribe on the basis of such unrealistic picture’(https://www.ubs.com/microsites/nobel-perspectives/en/herbert-simon.html).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whileworth (talk • contribs) 10:25, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is a good idea to add such a discussion.Limit-theorem (talk) 11:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Study of decision-making edit

message: I agree with the previous commentators,please use a photograph.I was surprised to see a drawn picture of Herbert A. Simon.
I agree with the other commentator, the use of that picture is indulgent.  Unless really specified by his family or one of his famous secretaries, I'd strongly suggest changing it.  while it notes it was commissioned by Herb, as a student of his indirectly, I am less comfortabel sending folks to this entry because of this portrait.  could be used inline perhaps, but it dos not really indicate him, IMHO.  -not harry bovik  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.39.43.42 (talk) 16:33, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: With all due respect, artists of the current time are not very good at representation.96.248.101.32 (talk) 04:10, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. We need a real picture.Limit-theorem (talk) 08:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The picture of H.A. Simon 

message: WP appears to completely lack coverage of Tempus and Hora.  They have their own article at https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_two_watchmakers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.82.8 (talk) 17:14, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Mention of his ''Parable of the Watchmakers''? 

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message: If Henry Schultz died in 1938 as his Wikipedia page states, he cannot have signed Herb Simon’s 1943 PhD thesis. - Shrisha Rao 2406:7400:75:430C:ACF8:84CD:141A:13FC (talk) 19:52, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
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