"[A]lmost every statement which we — or for that matter anyone else — runs afoul of some existing opinion, and, by the very nature of things, most opinions thus far could hardly have been proved or disproved within the field of social theory. It is therefore a great help that all our assertions can be borne out by specific examples from the theory of games and strategy."
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John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern| 1944. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Princeton University Press, p. 43.
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