Distributions Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as…
— John Tooby
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
— Bill Bryson
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
— Joseph Addison
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Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It…
— Lawrence Lessig
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It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of…
— Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in…
— Joel Greenblatt
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they…
— Mary Douglas
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Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on…
— Virginia Postrel
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One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability…
— John Hull
Who Wrote These Distributions Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Distributions Quotes as follows: