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Stern was part of the conference but absent from the dinner.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
options pushed me to study the math of probability.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The word sample stresses that one sees only one realization among a collection of possible ones. Now, a sample path can be either deterministic or random, which brings the next distinction.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They may hate McDonald's, but they certainly hate uncertainty even more.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
His argument was criticized for being rather incomplete.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards.
~ Neal Asher
player had put in her armor. Her well-crafted social veneer
~ Neal Shusterman
Maybe scythes hired people to sleep for them.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's Honorable Scythe Anastasia to you
~ Neal Shusterman
she was consumed by 2 simple things: despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more: youth and beauty
~ Charles Bukowski
presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she had made were too numerous to mention.
~ Charles Bukowski
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
~ Charles Bukowski
Religious matters have been purposely excluded as incompatible with the limits prescribed to the present work; a mere list of them would alone be sufficient to occupy a volume.
~ Charles Mackay
Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media. —JOHN VON NEUMANN
~ Charles Stross
Let's start with three crucial wrinkles in the aforementioned logic.
~ Charles Wheelan
The things that you appreciate as a reader are also the things you'll likely excel at as a writer.
~ Chris Baty
I love how 'Misfits' is a drama-comedy.
~ Josh Trank
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
~ Samuel Butler
I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
~ Dan Quinn
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
~ Matt Groening
Cambridge Analytica never took receipt of any data or undertook any modelling on behalf of Leave.E.U.
~ Brittany Kaiser
Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.
~ Cory Booker
There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.
~ Gerald Vizenor