Anatol Rapoport

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a…

— Anatol Rapoport

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers…

— Anatol Rapoport

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

— Anatol Rapoport

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of…

— Anatol Rapoport

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed…

— Anatol Rapoport

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with…

— Anatol Rapoport

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

— Anatol Rapoport

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

— Anatol Rapoport

The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready…

— Anatol Rapoport

On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of…

— Anatol Rapoport

The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed…

— Anatol Rapoport

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of…

— Anatol Rapoport

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort…

— Anatol Rapoport

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than…

— Anatol Rapoport

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

— Anatol Rapoport

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

— 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…

— Anatol Rapoport

Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds…

— Anatol Rapoport

In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell…

— Anatol Rapoport

The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of…

— Anatol Rapoport

The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is…

— Anatol Rapoport

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

— Anatol Rapoport

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been…

— Anatol Rapoport

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from…

— Anatol Rapoport

It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics…

— Anatol Rapoport

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and…

— Anatol Rapoport