The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Jonny Lang – Blues artist, from Rolling Stone Magazine, issues #820, September 2, 1999
“Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“The most powerful instruments of civilization are two - the Christian religion, and education.”
Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474
“Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
Source: On Love
On how a musician's way of playing is important
Prasad interview (1997)
"Non-cooperative Games" in Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (September 1951)<!-- ; as cited in Can and should the Nash program be looked at as a part of mechanism theory? (2003) by Walter Trockel -->
1950s
Context: The writer has developed a “dynamical” approach to the study of cooperative games based upon reduction to non-cooperative form. One proceeds by constructing a model of the preplay negotiation so that the steps of negotiation become moves in a larger non-cooperative game [which will have an infinity of pure strategies] describing the total situation. This larger game is then treated in terms of the theory of this paper [extended to infinite games] and if values are obtained they are taken as the values of the cooperative game. Thus the problem of analyzing a cooperative game becomes the problem of obtaining a suitable, and convincing, non-cooperative model for the negotiation.
The writer has, by such a treatment, obtained values for all finite two-person cooperative games, and some special n-person games.
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The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
