Prisoner Dilemma Quotes & Sayings

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me. — Jeremiah Burroughs

...Feeling like your life's been ripped apart and put together again, only put together wrong. — Day Leclaire

I never understood the Prisoner's Dilemma until this day. Do you cooperate when you really do want the highest payoff? When it doesn't even seem fair for both of you to cooperate? When it seems right to defect even if the other player doesn't? That's the payoff matrix of the true Prisoner's Dilemma. But all the rest of the logic - everything about what happens if you both think that way, and both defect - is the same. Do we want to live in a universe of cooperation or defection? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent. — Gabrielle Giffords

The prisoner's dilemma may seem to represent a rather specific and unusual scenario, but in fact it shows up all over the place in human and animal life. It turns out, for example, to underlie arms races in international relations, inaction on climate change, obstacles to trade, and even natural phenomena such as why trees grow so tall - giant redwoods could save terrific resources by only growing to, say, 50 feet (they usually grow to over 200), but in the competition for light, whoever grows that bit taller at the expense of the others will do better. In — Dominic Johnson

It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before. — E.H. Gombrich

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business. — Robert Scoble

You were born not to be just fine — Mel Robbins

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart

It's difficult to find a good conversationalist. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us. — Newt Gingrich

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart

I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating ... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose. — Nicole Kidman

Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory ... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons. — Peter Singer

When liars speak the truth, they are not believed. - ARISTOTLE (384 - 322 BC) — Bradford G. Wheler

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good. — John Rawls