Howard Raiffa Quotes

#1. Ideas are incestuous.

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#2. Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.

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#3. Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' ... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

Bill Gates

#4. Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

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#5. It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

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#6. The mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

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#7. Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

Phyllis Diller

#8. I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them.

Steve Nash

#9. 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.

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#10. I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

Lars Peter Hansen

#11. The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

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#12. We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Jean Vanier

#13. We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

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#14. A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

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#15. What's a little sac connection between friends?

Olivia Cunning

#16. There is no shortage of disputes.

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#17. Anger is short-lived madness.

Horace

#18. The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

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#19. Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

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#20. During my time in orbit, I lost bone mass, my muscles atrophied, and my blood redistributed itself in my body, which strained my heart. Every day, I was exposed to ten times the radiation of a person on Earth, which will increase my risk of a fatal cancer for the rest of my life.

Scott Kelly

#21. The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

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#22. It was hard not to envy her. A phantom toll-booth, or a chariot of fire, probably. Drawn by thestrals.

Lev Grossman

#23. A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.

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#24. Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

Bob Goff

#25. Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.

Steve Maraboli

#26. A lot depends on the starting point.

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#27. Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

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#28. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

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