"Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive."

-- Paul Samuelson

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“Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing is an unprecedented vision, boldness and courage to fashion a new, promising, better future. Our beliefs, society, ways of life, institutions and future goals must be reviewed and reappraised fundamentally from scratch.”
“What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.”
“I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.”
“Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.”

Source : "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 110), December 1962.
“Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?”
“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”
“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.”
“One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.”

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