Expected Utility Quotes

#1. choices are based upon expected utility. And once you have had experience with particular restaurants, CDs, or movies, future choices will be based upon what you remember about these past experiences, in other words, on their remembered utility.

Barry Schwartz

#2. If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. Although a large branch of game theory is devoted to the study of expected utility, we generally consider each player's payoffs as a ranking of his most preferred outcome to his least preferred outcome.

William Spaniel

#4. I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.

Catherine The Great

#5. I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

Madeleine Thien

#6. The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

Rupert Friend

#7. If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

Austin Carlile

#8. A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Haile Selassie

#9. Ryan, you're not real. You don't exist ... You're Deacon Maybury," Skulduggery said. "You're a hiding place who thinks it's a boy.

Derek Landy

#10. I have lived with several Zen masters
all of them cats.

Eckhart Tolle