Game-theory Quote by Sylvia Nasar

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“He was "a magician, a magician in the sense that he took what was given and simply forced the conclusions logically out of it,…

— Robert Leonard

John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have…

— Richard P. Feynman

“And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled…

— Martha Stout

“If he was a member of the human race at all, Neumann was its least attractive specimen. His eyebrows, twitching and curling like two…

— Philip Kerr

Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his…

— Noam Chomsky

“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash of class…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier’s Civilization. The game may be set in the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The games people play can be quite intricate.”

— Steven Redhead

“Eventually I came to understand some of what was at work between my father and Murphy. Unable to meet each other on equal terms,…

— John Gregory Brown

A rare theorist turned experimentalist.

— Willis Lamb

Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized fashion is…

— Douglass North