Children Quote by William Poundstone Download Open image “Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.” — William Poundstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Expectations Fiction
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Expectations are the illegitimate children – with desires as their step-siblings – of an ignorant mind and conditioned self. If” — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“In view of this, it may seem remarkable that anything as complex as a text of Hamlet exists. The observation that Hamlet was written… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.” — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the way the… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
