I think game theory creates ideas that are important in…

(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

"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

— Robert Aumann

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

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 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

Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.

— Frederick Lenz

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one…

— Kenneth Waltz

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

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

“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 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

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 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