"Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed"

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Source : John Maynard Smith (1982). “Evolution and the Theory of Games”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

John Maynard Smith

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“All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.”
“I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.”
“There's something really cool about getting scared. I don't know what.”
“Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.”

Source : "Edwin Armstrong: Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis, www.columbia.edu. 2002.
“Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”
“When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes, I shall not die, I shall not utterly die, For beauty born of beauty-- that remains.”

Source : MADISON CAWEIN (1899). “Myth and Romance”
“There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, 'Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A. because we want X, Y, and Z.' They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an emotional issue.”
“Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.”

Source : Source: variety.com

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