“Promise has 50% chance of happening. At least always make 2 promises at once.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Jack Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“occupations by probability and by similarity in exactly the same way.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero. — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability… — Jim Highsmith Copy Share Image
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is… — AronRa Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance. — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“the only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Nothing's impossible. Everything's got screwed up probability ratios.” — S.E. Anderson Copy Share Image
A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
Embrace the probability of your imminent death…and know there is nothing i can do to save you. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes. — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image