Quotes About Noise

getting a lot of "timely" statistics are capable of overreacting and mistaking noise for information—

The more frequently you look at data, the more noise you are disproportionally likely to get (rather than the valuable part, called the signal);

we are not made to understand the point, so we overreact emotionally to noise.

Modernity provides too many variables (but too little data per variable), and the spurious relationships grow much, much faster than real information, as noise is convex and information is concave. Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge—it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm.

Academic work, because of its attention-seeking orientation, can be easily subjected to Lindy effects: think of the hundreds of thousands of papers that are just noise, in spite of how hyped they were at the time of publication.

Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal (the

If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot. Such

Unless something moves by more than its usual daily percentage change, the event is deemed to be noise. Percentage moves are the size of the headlines. In addition, the interpretation is not linear; a 2% move is not twice as significant an event as 1%, it is rather like four to ten times. A 7% move can be several billion times more relevant than a 1% move!

The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two.

There's a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it's just inhaled three tons of snuff.

Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.

The artists considered musicians nothing more than background noise which interrupted important discussions on Modernism.

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

The phone rang three times before either of them even heard it, was able to tease the sound out of the tangle of noise that surrounded them. Annie reached the phone in the kitchen just as the answering machine was saying, "The Fangs are dead," and Annie said, out of breath, "We're not dead! Sorry, we're here. Sorry.

a calm that would undo most anyone who thought noise worse than its opposite

We hate our friends' kids. You get completely stressed when Kyle and Lara bring their boys to our home and they put their chocolaty fingerprints over everything and nearly burst your eardrums with their incessant noise. You have to take a handful of Nurofen the minute they've gone.

Much of the market is mindlessly indexed. That means it is all beta. The knowledge is leaching away in the surf of noise and rapid trading.

The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance...comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the edge of the noise.

High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

We were rather afraid of the noise of the trains at first, but the landlord said we should not notice them after a bit, and took £2 off the rent.

I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

No beast was as noisy as man.