Quotes About Estimation

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

At a very rough guess there might have been between 1.5 and 2 million slaves in Italy in the middle of the first century BCE, making up perhaps 20 per cent of the total population. They

Her estimate of human nature, and more particularly of her own sex, went up as the coffee went down.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a week.

Others said it was more like five thousand. Eyewitnesses

Above all, the take-home message from this book is that we humans tend to overestimate AI advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence. Today's

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Trump had asserted to the Times that he was worth "more than $200 million," even though a year earlier, Penn Central negotiators had estimated the Trump family holdings at about $25 million, all of it under Fred's control. In December 1976, a month after that article appeared, Fred Trump opened eight trusts for his children and grandchildren and transferred in $1 million each. Over the next five years, Donald would reap about $440,000 in income from that trust alone. Despite

The charge that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election, which he scoffed at, was, in the estimation of some of his friends, a perfect example of his inability to connect the dots.

That which costs little is less valued.

Because the estimate for each feature is made relative to the estimates for other features, it does not matter if our estimates are correct, a little incorrect, or a lot incorrect. What matters is that they are consistent.

The cone of uncertainty shows that during the feasibility phase of a project a schedule estimate is typically as far off as 60% to 160%. That is, a project expected to take 20 weeks could take anywhere from 12 to 32 weeks. After the requirements are written, the estimate might still be off +/- 15% in either direction. So an estimate of 20 weeks means work that takes 17 to 23 weeks. Figure 1.1. The cone of uncertainty narrows as the project progresses.

Some projects are undertaken to generate revenue and others to cut expenses, and some strive for both. If we can estimate the amount of money that will be made or saved by each theme, we can use that to help prioritize.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

To passively surrender to the evidence of the senses underestimates the capacities of the Inner Self.

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

The value of a life can only be estimated by its spiritual relationship to God.

Sacklers as one of the twenty wealthiest families in the United States, with an estimated fortune of some $14 billion,

To give an estimate is to say something you don't know absolutely to be true, and therefore it is to tell a lie, something geeks find deeply painful.

partial sum is correct within an error less than the first term neglected.

By 1500, the North American population comprised an estimated seven to ten million people.