Oversimplification Quote by Thomas J. Sargent Download Open image “What I really don't like is oversimplification.” — Thomas J. Sargent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oversimplification
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Resistance to simplification is based on the belief that every additional feature, part, and function represents an improvement.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
“To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let… — Carolyn J. Rasmus Copy Share Image
...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“See the system. When you find yourself stuck in an oversimplified polarized conflict, a useful first step is to try to become more aware… — Peter T. Coleman Copy Share Image
“When trying to fathom an immense, intricate system, drawing direct arrows of causality between micro and macro-components is perilous. Which stock caused the crash… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of compiled observations… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense." "I don't… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
