Quotes About Anomalies

All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

studying extreme deviations from stated principles

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

My programs don't have bugs... they have random features.

In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline. And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality.

on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality.

glaring anomalies, personal opinions, emotional outbursts, or moral leanings.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

a swarthy young wench who had marked anomalies of feature and seemed to exude a perpetual odor of fish.

Sensitive reader, start not at the apparition! Oxford is a plexus of anomalies.

Anomalies are to be expected, but there is still a certain pattern to the chaos.

Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality.

The more central the belief is to our thinking, the harder it is to give up. These core beliefs anchor our understanding. We use them to make sense of events, to inquire, and to arrive at judgments about other ideas. And so we are much more likely to explain away any anomalies rather than revise our beliefs in the face of them.

So I'd been called the Barbara Walters of weird shit.There's weird shit and then there's weird shit.

However brain functioning is measured, these studies tell us nothing about whether the observed anomalies were present at birth or whether they resulted from trauma, chronic stress or other early-childhood experiences.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.

Outliers are increasingly unlikely. You

Google after acquiring intimate knowledge of its technology may make a thousand-fold return over five to seven years. A firm such as Renaissance might make a thousand trades in a day harvesting the tiniest anomalies. With modest leverage and relentless twenty-four-hour trading around the globe,

Almost all anomalies occur in prostitutes than in female criminals, and both categories have more degenerative characteristics than do normal women' (Lombroso and Ferrero, 2004: 8).

The universe was a disorderly mess, the only interesting bits being the organized anomalies.