Alvin E Roth I gravitated to economics because I’m interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other. – Alvin E Roth Collaborate Quotes Coordinate Quotes Economics Quotes Gravitated Quotes People Quotes Studies Quotes The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you’re actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can’t forget that and run your economy. But it’s not the only thing you need to know. Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
Nicklas Bendtner I switch from the No 26 jersey to No 52 jersey because of a professional fortune-teller my mum knows. – Nicklas Bendtner
Gwynne Shotwell After I finished my master’s degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. – Gwynne Shotwell
Hannah Fry There’s actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every time you need something to be optimal there’s going to be some mathematics at play. – Hannah Fry
Mandy Ingber My father was really into yoga, and back then, it seemed like we were really the only ones who knew about yoga. It amazes me now… just what a movement yoga has become and what an industry it’s become. – Mandy Ingber
Matt Berry One of the most memorable and frightening things when I was four or five was Kate Bush doing ‘Wuthering Heights.’ She did it outside, in a forest, and she did this thing where she looked straight into the camera, and it’s the most frightening thing for a kid to see, but it just stuck in my head. – Matt Berry
Peter Berg I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in ‘Friday Night Lights’ and ‘The Kingdom.’ I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director. – Peter Berg
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