13 ordspråk av Thomas Schelling
Thomas Schelling
 I have spoken to distance runners who, as exhaustion approaches, pick their stopping places a mile in advance, with the rule that any place more distant can be picked at any time before they reach the current target, and once picked even by the most fleeting resolve it becomes controlling. |
| I think I know whose side I'm on, and I'm sorry for him. |
| It will be unusual to be deterred by small countries, |
| Just as it may be easier to ban nuclear weapons from the battlefield in toto than through carefully graduated specifications on their use, zero is a more enforceable limit on cigarettes or chewing gum than some flexible quantitative ration. |
| Social scientists have to either go out into the field themselves or be in very close contact with those in the field. |
| the mathematical frontier of a certain kind of social theory. |
| The question was asked, 'What can seven divisions do to stop a Soviet attack? ... And the answer very explicitly was: They can guarantee that if the Soviets attack and kill or capture 300,000 Americans, the war won't end there. |
| Then, the major conflict was a very simple conflict. |
| This permeates life, ... I find it important in dealing with children, dealing with spouses, dealing with neighbors, dealing with customers. |
| To go 60 years without any further use of nuclear weapons, I find astonishing. If I would have stood in front of an audience like this in 1960 and said we would finish the century without using nuclear weapons, no one would have credited me whatsoever. |
| When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts. |
| [News of the prize came at 6:45 a.m. in a phone call from] someone with a Swedish accent, ... We were pleased. |
| [The two men, who will share the prize money, have never worked together, but know each other.] They linked us together because he is a producer of game theory and I am a user of game theory, ... I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities. |
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