Posts tagged quotes
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28 Dec, '24
Sometimes taking time
皿 Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut. Haruki Murakami in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running -
23 Oct, '23
Chromatic
皿 When in doubt, play chromatic Joe Pass -
28 Apr, '23
Anarchist bookshop
皿 I am going to open an anarchist bookshop but with franchise potential. Amber in Dating Amber -
10 Apr, '23
Infrequent doesn’t disprove
皿 There is no logical warrant for considering an event known to occur in a given hypothesis, even if infrequently, as… -
21 Mar, '23
Night
皿 All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe. The… -
10 Mar, '23
Not a contribution to science
皿 Null hypotheses of no difference are usually known to be false before the data are collected … when they are,… -
4 Mar, '23
The data may not contain the answer
皿 The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can… -
2 Feb, '23
Rouge
皿 Valentine: If I had to go to court…are there still judges like you? The Judge: You won’t go to court.… -
29 Jan, '23
Never Underestimate
皿 Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor Cory Doctorow, Little Brother -
4 Jan, '18
Italo Calvino’s humanity
皿 This year requires an extra dose of new perspective, to make the most of time, to bring the best of people. -
13 Feb, '16
Entitlement
皿 You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be… -
5 Feb, '16
The camera is an instrument
皿 The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera Dorothea Lange -
6 Mar, '15
To know one’s own state
皿 To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s… -
9 Feb, '15
I write differently
皿 I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way… -
29 Jan, '15
But apart from…
皿 …All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public… -
10 Jan, '12
The world owes you nothing
皿 Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain -
22 Dec, '11
The introduction of a new system
皿 It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to… -
15 Dec, '11
Living with uncertainty
皿 I think it is much more interesting to live with uncertainty than to live with answers that might be wrong. -
25 Nov, '11
Solomon saith
皿 Solomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge… -
23 Nov, '11
No one would ever conceive
皿 I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of… -
8 Nov, '11
On “true” models
皿 Before starting the description of the probability distributions, we want to impose on the reader the essential feature that a… -
7 Apr, '10
Preamble to the instructions on how to wind a watch
皿 Think of this: when they present you with a watch, they are gifting you with a tiny flowering hell, a… -
8 Jan, '10
The art of losing
皿 Very few things last forever. Forever used to mean a hundred or a thousand years—even the universe had a beginning…