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Eric Maskin Quotes

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1950

Topics

Innovation Society Better Try May

Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

Doing Back Need Drum Theme Going

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

Live Great Myself Challenge Person

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

Moment World Go Band Sales Radio

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

Kid Always Clown Performer Bit

In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.

Life Country Teachers Intelligent

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Michael Tippett

Poetry Go Over Something Begins

My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.

Age Storm Brother Start Wolf Stone

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Funny Me You Teeth Out Break

Robotic toys can be very interesting, but it is important that the toy not 'dictate' how the child should play with it. Rather, it should take its cues from the child and enhance, teach, and enrich the play experience. We incorporated some of these features into a robotic baby doll we built for Hasbro in 1999.

Experience Child Baby Interesting

I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.

Chuck Klosterman

Think Hurt Weird Walking You Down

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

Grateful Night Three Dead Sound

'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

Childhood Me My Own Own Like Much

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