"Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate."

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Source : "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 114), December 1962.

Anatol Rapoport

#Passion Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“For what you do to others, you do to yourself.”
“The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.82, Routledge
“There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.”
“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books
“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”
“Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.”
“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.”
“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.”

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