Selten Quotes

#1. I am addicted to research, let's say.

Reinhard Selten

#2. Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

Mason Cooley

#3. I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#4. When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

Reinhard Selten

#5. If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

Reinhard Selten

#6. I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

Bear Bryant

#7. When I was born, my father owned a business called a 'reading circle'; folders containing an assortment of magazines were lent to customers for one week, then recollected and lent out again. The older the folder, the lower was the fee. This was a flourishing branch of industry.

Reinhard Selten

#8. It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#9. Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Jasper Fforde

#10. Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but

Robert B. Parker

#11. Was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along. Susan Baker

L.M. Montgomery

#12. I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Reinhard Selten

#13. It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

Reinhard Selten

#14. I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

Mary-Louise Parker

#15. One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Og Mandino

#16. The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will's arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.

Donna Freitas

#17. I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

Danny Trejo

#18. My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

Reinhard Selten