Insight Quote by William Poundstone Download Open image “Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.” — William Poundstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insight Irrelevant Radical Shannon Wisdom
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“We have seen in this book numerous ambiguous texts that can be interpreted in two different ways: as an assertion that is true but… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar Copy Share Image
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything. — Terence McKenna 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
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — 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
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship… — Rudolph Ballentine Copy Share Image
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
