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Thomas C. Schelling
“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

Thomas C. Schelling
“The art of looking at the problem from the other person's point of view, identifying his opportunities and his interests, an art that has traditionally been practiced by diplomats, lawyers, and chess players, is at the center of strategic analysis.”
Thomas C. Schelling, Choice and Consequence

Harry Kemelman
“Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers’ opinions. There’s nothing competitive about learning, it’s something everyone does for himself alone.”
Harry Kemelman, Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red

Thomas C. Schelling
“Communication is often neither entirely possible nor entirely reliable”
Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict

“However, as American scholar Williamson Murray had written, “One of the foremost attributes of military effectiveness must lie in the ability to recognize and adapt to the actual conditions of combat, as well as to the new challenges that war inevitably throws up.” It was probably one of her favorite quotes. She often pondered this idea.”
Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

175335 AoSHQ Moron Horde — 602 members — last activity Aug 31, 2022 08:44AM
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