If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

No system of balance functions automatically.