It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy..

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of coll….

Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skysc….

The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a lar….

The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with rel….

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant….

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision..

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move..

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this stru….

Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical an….

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters whic….

The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure….

On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be des….

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?.

It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social struc….

Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these as….

In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others ….

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman ….

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us..

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each….

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of u….