Michael Webster

“Never trust a woman's tears, Alyosha. I am never for the woman in such cases. I am always on the side of the men.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Models tend to be useful when they are simultaneously simple enough to fit a variety of behaviors and complex enough to fit behaviors that need the help of an explanatory model.”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior

“What is common to all of these examples is the way people’s behavior depends on how many are behaving a particular way, or how much they are behaving that way—how many attend the seminar how frequently”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior

“Or, it goes the way of the dying seminar—fun but not enough fun, because there are not enough people to generate the loyalty and enthusiasm that would keep the number large and the absentee rate small.”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior