Quotes About Outcome

Everything – the entire 400-megabuck investment, ten years of Company black operations – depends on what happens in the next few hours.

Good policy uses incentives to channel behavior toward some desired outcome. Bad policy either ignores incentives, or fails to anticipate how rational individuals might change their behavior to avoid being penalized.

The belief otherwise is sometimes called "the gambler's fallacy." In fact, if you flip a fair coin 1,000,000 times and get 1,000,000 heads in a row, the probability of getting tails on the next flip is still ½. The

As humans, we are really bad at envisioning the counterfactual—what might have happened if different choices had been made.

By the time I've spent $1 million on tickets, I'm going to end up with something strikingly close to $560,000.

The decision tree lets you know that your expected payoff is far higher than what you are being asked to invest.

On the other hand, the most likely outcome, meaning the one that will happen most often, is that the company will not discover a cure for baldness and you will get only $250,000 back.

Statistics cannot prove anything with certainty. Instead, the power of statistical inference derives from observing some pattern or outcome and then using probability to determine the most likely explanation for that outcome.

Things are always like that. Our eye sees something; we take a stone and aim at it. But the stone rarely succeeds like the eye in hitting the mark.

It's a miracle that any job comes together.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

I have watched stuff like Mixed Martial Arts and boxing, and sometimes it's disappointing because the big fight is over like in 30 seconds or so.

When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

The most important thing for me is to win the fight and not what people are going to say.

The most important thing is how the season ends.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.

hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined;

Cabeza de melón Había un niño taciturno, de hombre y melón un injerto. Tenía el ánimo nocturno por desear tanto estar muerto. Pero hay que tener cuidado con lo que se desea. Pues él acabó en jalea tras un pisotón bien dado.

The only end some things have is the end you give em.