Quotes About Probability

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

I don't mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the ear that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.

odds don't matter. The natural world defies statistics.

Statistics, Jenny had learned early on, never mattered when they applied to you, not if you were the one in a thousand who'd been struck by lightning

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time are malleable, and everything is seen through a haze of probabilities, rather than with certainty.

I suspect that human beings were generally catastrophists at heart until their instinctive awareness of the earth's unpredictability was gradually supplanted by a belief in uniformitarianism—a regime of ideas that was supported by scientific theories like Lyell's, and also by a range of governmental practices that were informed by statistics and probability.

Maybe's a game with no winners.

If there is one thing I have learned in all my many last stands, it is that death is never certain, only… extremely likely.

So this is what luck looks like, is it? I've often wondered.

According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, we never know where the electron is going to appear in the electron cloud, yet from nothing comes something. This is why quantum physics is so exciting and unpredictable: The electron is not always physical matter; rather, it exists as the energy or as the probability of a wave. It is only through the act of observation by an observer that it appears.

por medio de la atención, la aplicación sincera de los nuevos conocimientos y el repetido esfuerzo diario podrás usar tu mente, como el observador, para colapsar las partículas cuánticas y organizar una infinidad de ondas subatómicas de probabilidad en una situación física deseada llamada experiencia vital.

Es decir, si puedes imaginar un acontecimiento futuro en tu vida basándote en cualquiera de tus deseos, esta realidad ya existe como posibilidad en el campo cuántico, esperando a que la observes. Si tu mente puede influir en la aparición de un electrón, en teoría también puede influir en la aparición de cualquier posibilidad.

Most of us are not going to play sports for a living. One in one million kids will play professional basketball. I don't mean to depress you, but if you're white it's one in five million!

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.