“After a little reflection, the best strategy becomes clear: bid aggressively up to a maximum cutoff value and then quit.”

“Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis — in the city …”

“Nine times out of ten, salespeople don't succeed on social media, because they don't have a clear strategy on how to build an audience and provide value.”

“The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.”

“History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.”

“We see plenty of artistic work that reflects superficial social conditions, but very little work that questions fundamental values.”

“Another side of the same strategy has been worked out to neutralise, paralyse and blacken or pamper different sections of Hindu society so that the road is cleared for the forward march of Islamism. Some salient features of this secondary strategy can be outlined as follows: 1. The concept of Secularism which is enshrined in the Constitution of India and which has become the most sacred slogan for all our political parties should be distorted, misinterpreted and misused to the maximum to block out the least little expression of Hindu culture in the state apparatus and public life of India; 2. The terms “communal” and “communalism” which have become terms of abuse in India’s political parlance, should be carefully cultivated and more and more mystified to malign all those organisations, institutions and parties which do not serve Islamism, directly and/or indirectly; (…)”

“It is ironic that when the priority is personal safety, the world becomes a very dangerous world. It becomes a world in which everyone is doing things for their own individual best interests. It becomes a society of control, strategy and zero-sum games.”

“If the discount parameter, w, is sufficiently high, there is no best strategy independent of the strategy used by the other player.”

“(Television) Men are naturally more aggressive than women. (Sylvia) All the more reason to keep them locked up after dark.”