Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it's not even there. The… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one… — Adam-Troy Castro Copy Share Image
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000… The size… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If you go back and look at the history of Supreme Court fights from the very beginning there is a corresponding interest,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The probability of having some problem with the children is greater when the mother is over the age of 35 but I've… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
In this way, there is a strange alchemy to modern campaigning: a candidate must highlight the urgency of the choice facing voters… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
Where there's a will, there's a way. Hackers tend to find a way. Code is also expanding. More lines of code means… — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
“There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
Card games are one of the best ways to teach basic maths skills. From adding up and multiplying to understanding probability, there… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image