Thomas Schelling Quotes (10 Quotes)

The two men, who will share the prize money, have never worked together, but know each other. They linked us together because he is a producer of game theory and I am a user of game theory, ... I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Just as it may be easier to ban nuclear weapons from the battlefield in toto than through carefully graduated specifications on their use, zero is a more enforceable limit on cigarettes or chewing gum than some flexible quantitative ration.

This permeates life, ... I find it important in dealing with children, dealing with spouses, dealing with neighbors, dealing with customers.

News of the prize came at 645 a.m. in a phone call from someone with a Swedish accent, ... We were pleased.

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 now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

I have spoken to distance runners who, as exhaustion approaches, pick their stopping places a mile in advance, with the rule that any place more distant can be picked at any time before they reach the current target, and once picked even by the most fleet

the mathematical frontier of a certain kind of social theory.

To go 60 years without any further use of nuclear weapons, I find astonishing. If I would have stood in front of an audience like this in 1960 and said we would finish the century without using nuclear weapons, no one would have credited me whatsoever.

Then, the major conflict was a very simple conflict.

The question was asked, 'What can seven divisions do to stop a Soviet attack ... And the answer very explicitly was They can guarantee that if the Soviets attack and kill or capture 300,000 Americans, the war won't end there.