It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally…

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

— Anatol Rapoport

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in…

— Anatol Rapoport

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…

— Anatol Rapoport

Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these…

— Anatol Rapoport

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us…

— Colin Camerer

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

— John Maynard Smith

“But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the…

— Jeffery Deaver

I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies…

— John Maynard Smith

Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say…

— Howard Raiffa

I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

— Robert Aumann

Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate…

— Elliott Sober

I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those…

— George Leonard