I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

- Thomas Schelling

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 n…

- Thomas Schelling

Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad tr…

- Thomas Schelling

I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so fort…

- Thomas Schelling

I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not …

- Thomas Schelling

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

- Thomas Schelling