“The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.”

— Stephen Potter

Title of book (1947)

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British writer 1900–1969

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

“Only yesterday the practical things of today were decried as impractical, and the theories which will be practical tomorrow will always be branded as valueless games by the practical man of today.”

William Feller (1906–1970) Croatian-American mathematician

Introduction, The Nature of Probability Theory, p. 6.
An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition)

“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

“There is as yet no unified theory of retrieval systems, and a good deal of retrieval practice is still an empirical art, unsullied by theory.”

Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist

Preface (1961) p. vi; Partly cited by Stephen E. Robertson (2011) " On retrieval system theory http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/papers/robertson.pdf".
On Retrieval System Theory (1961)