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 Copy Share Image
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
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