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"It's pretty well known ... that economics has a race and gender problem, and that's something we've finally been trying to address as a field."

"Game theory helps us understand why [human] altruism happens. ... It also helps us understand the ways in which we are good."

"Running Twitter isn't as easy as colonizing Mars or electrifying the automotive industry around the world."

"Much as steam engines energized the Industrial Age, recommendation engines are the movers digitally driving 21st-century advice worldwide."

"MIT was my top choice because I valued its emphasis on technology and innovation."

"There are obviously a lot of questions with regard to the openness of a platform so integral to public discourse if it's taken private."

"The labor movement is getting more aggressive and more sophisticated and so I think we're going to see more organizing in the future."

In "Hidden Games," Moshe Hoffman, and Erez Yoeli do a valiant job of applying game theory to seemingly irrational behavior.

"The last thing we were going to do ... was say goodbye to all the people that said hello to us all those years ago and built Blue Bottle."