Gerard Debreu Quotes

#1. The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Gerard Debreu

#2. The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

Gerard Debreu

#3. What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Saul Williams

#4. In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Gerard Debreu

#5. The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.

Deborah Blum

#6. Carving is a source of joy to the artist ... To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.

Aristide Maillol

#7. This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Oscar Robertson

#8. I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

Gerard Debreu

#10. Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

Donald Freed