Hurwicz Quotes & Sayings

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin. — Leonid Hurwicz

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

God is forbearing, gracious, and longsuffering, but he is also a God of holiness, wrath, and judgement.57 The wrath of God, unlike the love or holiness of God, should not be thought of as an intrinsic perfection of God; rather it is a function or expression of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath, but there will always be love and holiness. Where God in his holiness confronts his image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, otherwise God is not the jealous and self-sufficient God he claims to be, and his holiness is impugned.58 — Peter J. Gentry

A bulimic person's shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and yearnings. She may wish that her needs and desires did not exist and may try to act as if she does not need or want anything or anyone. When that attempt inevitably fails, she may wish that others could magically read her mind and respond to her needs and wants without her having to ask for anything. To avoid the shame of expressing her needs and desires, she turns to food, rather than relationships, for comfort. — Sheila M. Reindl

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do. — Tim Chester

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist. — Eric Maskin

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. — Robert G. Allen

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions. — Leonid Hurwicz

It is clear to me that Daisy can never be left alone. She is too trusting and too willing to try out new things without the leavening effect of fear. — Jessica Clare

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. — Ambrose Bierce

There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains. — Leonid Hurwicz

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior. — Leonid Hurwicz

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients? — Sarah Chalke

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems. — Leonid Hurwicz

When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do. — Leonid Hurwicz

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind. — Rajneesh

Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect. — Leonid Hurwicz

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement. — Leonid Hurwicz