Quote of the Day: facing complexity and uncertainty

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...it is now clear that the elaborate organizations that human beings have constructed in the modern world to carry out the work of production and government can only be understood as machinery for coping with the limits of man’s abilities to comprehend and compute in the face of complexity and uncertainty.

Herbert A. Simon. Nobel Prize lecture, Dec 8, 1978.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1978/simon-lecture.html