Alvin E. Roth Quotes

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Solution

• Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Edge
  • Dive

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Family
  • Nature

• A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison

• A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Marriage
  • Worlds
  • Bargain

• We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

  

  Clive Bell
  • Work
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

  

  Alvin E. Roth
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