John Nash Quotes

“His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“Nash was respected but not well liked.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?” an actress once quipped, and the quip captures the combination of brains, status, and sex appeal that made Nash so irresistible.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“Of all the letters I’ve received from readers, my favorite came from a homeless man. It arrived in a dirty envelope with no return address, and it was scrawled on neon orange paper. It was signed “Berkeley Baby.” It would never have made it past the New York Times mailroom after the anthrax scare. The letter writer turned out to have been the night rewrite editor on the metro desk at the New York Times before he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the mid-1970s. Since then, he had adopted the name Berkeley Baby and lived on the streets of Berkeley, California, near the university, a forlorn, sad figure not unlike the Phantom of Fine Hall. He wrote, “John Nash’s story gives me hope that one day the world will come back to me too.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“There is no sign of a mathematical pedigree in Nash’s ancestry or any indication that mathematics was much in the air at the Nash household.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“In 1958, Fortune singled Nash out for his achievements in game theory, algebraic geometry, and nonlinear theory,”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“A game is the complete exploration of freedom within a restrictive environment”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“A game is a construct to secure unrestricted freedom within a highly restricted setup.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Game theory is about exploring of freedom of choices and the equilibrium which comes from understanding the consequences of freedom.

24 Dec National Mathematics Day”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“We have a right to freedom and a duty to curb it some for the common good”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The theory of fun. The less the freedom, more the fun

8 Nov World Quality Day
8 Nov World Tongue Twister Day”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“A classical Game Theory case. People are not taking vaccines in the hope that everyone else would be vaccinated and they would be safe.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor