Strategic Interaction Quotes

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.

There is no substitute for direct leader-to-leader engagement.

I'm not going to Russia and tell them to go to hell and think - that's not the way things are done. You chip away at something and you hope that there will be dialogue and that the situation can get better. You don't just go in there with guns blazing and say well, to hell with you because they're going to say to hell with you and get out of the country.

The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.

I don't think it's good to interact with people with a certain agenda in mind.

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

It's barrister behaviour to say what you think will appeal to the person you're talking to, whoever it happens to be, whether it's true or not.

In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.

Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say to Mr. X as he confronts the morass of his problem.