"Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium."

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Source : "Malthusianisms". www.scottaaronson.com. August 15, 2009.

Scott Aaronson

#Firsts Quotes #Humbling Experiences Quotes #Equilibrium Quotes

“After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.”
“We have three big shows on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth.”
“Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.”
“I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.”
“Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?”
“Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.”

Source : Venerable Louis of Granada, Aeterna Press (1851). “The Sinner's Guide”, p.5, Aeterna Press
“People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,”

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