"A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist."

--

Source : "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 108), December 1962.

Anatol Rapoport

#Military Quotes #Player Quotes #Games Quotes

“USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.”
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.15, New Directions Publishing
“Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.”
“Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in doubtful case. ... But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.”
“Earn more to grow more, and grow more to give more.”
“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”

Source : Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
“I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Aug 15, 2014
“Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.”

You may also like: