The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Gen. Omar Bradley
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
alfred
I’m smellin’ a lotta “IF” comin’ off this plan.
Jayne cobb
And, when you analyze those situations, what you find is that we as humans simply have a profound inability to understand statistics and probability. It’s really that simple.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Never memorize something that you can look up.
albert einstein
We were seeing details in the rings that were shocking. We just lacked the imagination that it would require to predict what it would look like.
Carolyn porco, cassini imaging science team lead
This wonderful quote highlights a key element in exploring complex systems – we have to approach our investigations with a wide open imagination, exploring all possible data sources so we can better understand what drives the systems around us.
Continue readingSo, in a way, by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad.
donald trump
Knowledge itself is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae (1597)
We’re all mutants, what’s more remarkable is how many of us appear normal.
walter bishop
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
Albert Einstein
Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
bullet tooth tony
The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
andy rooney
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.
Raoul Bott
My dear, there is much that is unexplained. Until it is.
walter bishop
Often the most effective way to describe, explore, and summarize a large set of numbers – even a very large set – is to look at pictures of those numbers.
edward r tufte
In God we trust, all others must bring data.
w. edwards Deming
And over the years, I’ve become convinced of one key, overarching fact about the ignorant mind. One should not think of it as uninformed. Rather, one should think of it as misinformed.
An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge.
David Dunning
Do. Or do not. There is no try.
yoda
The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.
donald rumsfeld
Processor frequency gets the glory, but I/O bandwidth wins the game.
Tom Bradicich, PhD, Former IBM Fellow and VP