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> [Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/do-you-know-that-all-great-spurts-in-progress-came-just-after-some/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

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## More by Anatol Rapoport

> [The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/the-usefulness-of-the-models-in-constructing-a-testable-theory-of-the/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 system?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/do-you-know-that-all-great-spurts-in-progress-came-just-after-some/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/game-theory-is-essentially-a-structural-theory-it-uncovers-the/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/it-is-misleading-in-a-crucial-way-to-view-information-as-something/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/cooperate-on-move-one-thereafter-do-whatever-the-other-player-did-the/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/although-the-drama-of-games-of-strategy-is-strongly-linked-with-the/)

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> [The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/the-transition-from-the-concept-of-information-in-the-technical/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [ The purpose of formulating \[a\] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/the-purpose-of-formulating-a-conflict-as-a-game-is-not-that-of/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/a-theorem-is-a-proposition-which-is-a-strict-logical-consequence-of/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/to-gain-knowledge-we-must-learn-to-ask-the-right-questions-and-to-get/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/the-flow-of-information-through-human-communication-channels-is/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/in-the-us-infantry-manual-published-during-world-war-ii-the-soldier/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/one-cannot-play-chess-if-one-becomes-aware-of-the-pieces-as-living/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatol-rapoport/)

> [It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/it-is-one-thing-to-say-that-the-dwelling-has-symbolic-and/)

[Anatol Rapoport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 collective rationality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatol-rapoport/the-outcome-of-a-non-constant-sum-game-may-be-dictated-by-the/)

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