Quotes About Likely

Readability of code is now my first priority. It's more important than being fast, almost as important as being correct, but I think being readable is actually the most likely way of making it correct.

In September 2014, the USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to be invested over a 2-3 year period.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

Or maybe I'd lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I'd been born without one.

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.

Of course, it is likely enough, my friends, that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

I trust my electors. I see them in weekly meetings. I'm their advocate, I'm there to take up their case. I'm not there to decide whether they've got a good case or a bad case. And I think that if you trust people, they're more likely to trust you back.

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.

Jackson?' 'Sir?' 'What's a pundit?' 'I think it's one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.' 'Yes, that sounds very likely.

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.

While we may never achieve closure in our view of the world, it seems extraordinarily likely that our descendants will look upon many of our beliefs as both impossibly quaint and suicidally stupid.

Didn't seem likely, but what's the point of likely fantasies?

the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.

I used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

the consequences of some behaviour are experienced as pleasurable or painful, the quicker and more persistent is the ensuing learning likely to be.