Eric Maskin Quotes

How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?

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• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• I've never hankered for any role.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Never
  • Role
  • Any

• If people hate me they hate me.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Hate
  • Me

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• I don't think about the media.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Think
  • Media
  • About

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grateful

• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Wise

• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Chance

• Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Daughter
  • Waves

• I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so, if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Believe

• I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Live
  • House
  • Perfect

• I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

  

  John McGahern
  • Up
  • Society

• We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Time
  • Purpose

• My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Special
  • Talk
  • Heroes

• A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • May
  • Model
  • Theory

• Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

  

  Nguyen Quyen
  • Changed
  • Discovery
  • Medicine

• How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?

  

  Eric Maskin