Quotes About Nicholas

Nicholas said, 'I hear he's ordered two million bricks for rebuilding that crumbling old family place of his in Wiltshire – what's it called, Wolf's Hole?' 'Wolf Hall. All paid for by the public purse, empty though it is.

Nicholas, in Farrow-on-Grey. She loved it so.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

To be dubbed by my sovereign is an absolutely wonderful honour for me and my family.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.

Decentralization is based on the simple notion that it is easier to macrobull***t than microbull***t. Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.

As Yogi Berra said, "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.

while the statements are dressed up to look as if they were made for the benefit of the collective.

But we don't easily translate this to other domains and remain victims of scientism

options pushed me to study the math of probability.

the lucky surge of interest for reasons completely external to the works themselves.

aside from deriving conclusions from static measures of inequality—the methods he used were flawed:

Such statements, that other traders had also gotten into trouble, are self-incriminating.

but runs the risk of killing a few, with a net benefit to society.

the "planning fallacy," in which they try to explain the fact that projects take longer, rarely less time, using psychological factors.

they are explicitly designed to benefit from market volatility.

their role being confined to analysis, not decision making.

I would be now brainwashed into thinking that uncertainty was something to be found in a casino

the ultimate test of whether you like an author is if you've reread him)

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion

Time is the expert. Or, rather, the temperamental and ruthless Lindy, as we see in the next chapter.

A question of proof. That's a good title for a detective story, if you ever write one.