To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us. — 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
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
(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
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
Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share
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
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
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
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share
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
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
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
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share
It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share
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. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share
