“By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.” Quote by Mohammed Emami-Kashani
“If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.” PeopleIfsLittlesHardFallBitsLittle BitMouthsTeethBehaveDisrespectIranianDevouring Author:Mohammed Emami-Kashani
“The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.” CountryCausesPayPressureWestOutcomesIslamicStrifeDesirable Author:Mohammed Emami-Kashani
“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.” MenWarCertainIndividualHoursPleasureOpinionEternalAspectRemainsImpulseGamblingFormalForbiddenOutletsGamblePuritanCasinosIrrationality Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.” StatesGamesInformationTheorySolutionsProvenTheoremsSaddles Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.” ActionCoursesDecisionEssenceStrategyDecision MakingGamblingPhenomenon Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.” GamesRiskConditionsUncertaintyConventionalInvolving Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.” PersonsEvilResultsProduceFortunePhilosopherStatementsGood And EvilBalancedFrench Philosopher Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.” KnownDependsResourcesProbabilityBettingWagers Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.” FirstsChristianGamesClassSolutionsFingersAriseErasGamblingFormalCoinsMatching Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.” Has BeensStrategyProofWinnerStayingPrincipalSelectionOptimal Author:Richard Arnold Epstein