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

“It enhances one’s appreciation of a model, and often the use one can make of it, to be aware of applications outside one’s own field. Recognition of the wide applicability of a model, or of a family of models, helps in recognizing that one is dealing with a very general or basic phenomenon, not something specialized or idiosyncratic or unique.”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior

“The principle of critical mass is so simple that it is no wonder that it shows up in epidemiology, fashion, survival and extinction of species, language systems, racial integration, jaywalking, panic behavior, and political movements.”
― 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