Quote by Brian Christian Download Open image ““Optimal stopping tells us when to look and when to leap.”” — Brian Christian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Speed is the ultimate defense, the antidote to stopping and really looking. If we really saw what we were doing and who we had… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“Stopping gives you the chance of knowing less, of halting the perception-narrowing force of the cognitive biases that we are always trying to confirm,… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
“You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.” — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
“You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.” — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“When you don't keep looking back its that much easier not to trip and fall.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If we lose track when it comes to deciding when to stop, that should be a sign. — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
“You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“ This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each… — Swati Avasthi Copy Share Image
“Though all Christians start a wedding invitation by solemnly declaring their marriage is due to special Divine arrangement, I, as a philosopher, would like… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every bit as… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“We asked Shoup if his research allows him to optimize his own commute, through the Los Angeles traffic to his office at UCLA. Does… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The Making of a Fly, which in April 2011 was selling for $23,698,655.93 (plus… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Though time management seems a problem as old as time itself, the science of scheduling began in the machine shops of the industrial revolution.… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“When our expectations are uncertain and the data are noisy, the best bet is to paint with a broad brush” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
