Common sense Quote by William Poundstone Download Open image ““Sometimes "creativity" is just common sense.”” — William Poundstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common sense Creativity Creativity Just Just Common Sense
Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things. — Ginevra Elkann Copy Share Image
Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility. — Swami Nithyananda Copy Share Image
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I… — Ron Miriello Copy Share Image
Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.'… — Jonah Lehrer 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
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no… — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“It was true that common sense wasn’t her forte. It wasn’t that she was silly or stupid, but she heard so many more voices… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention.” — Nakia R. Laushaul Copy Share Image
In Raleigh, partisan battles, power struggles and lawsuits might grab the headlines, but we have to work together where we can. To look beyond… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN” — Chaz Thompson Copy Share Image
“when people’s brains are in defensive mode, it becomes harder to see common sense. Small disagreements can end up holding back progress beyond reason.” — Caroline Webb Copy Share Image
