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Eric Maskin Quotes

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Brother Me Big Big Brother

Change is not threatening.

Change Threatening

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Character Man Easy Understand Savage

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

Think Mankind Everybody I Think Very

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

Time Trust Travel Me Impossible You

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Questions Going Metal Asking Just

In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.

Me World Violence Attention You

Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

Business People Feel Doing You Want

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Susan B. Anthony

Girl Happy Sweet Think Independence

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

Time Money More Takes Time And Money

I don't ever want to lose my rawness or whatever. That makes a person special.

Lose Person Want Special Whatever

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Nature Photography Started Means

People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.

Power People Control Think Lose Go

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