John Harsanyi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
No one man is superior to the game.
You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic
Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.

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