Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr Copy Share Image
There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time),… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense… — Elroy Dimson Copy Share Image
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation. — Roger G. Ibbotson Copy Share Image
It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. — William Osler Copy Share Image
When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
