Quotes About Selection

the researcher has the incentive to select the experiment that corresponds to what he was looking for, hiding the failed attempts.

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.

it depends on how the choices are presented to you.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk, and it would be unfair, wrong, and downright insulting to measure them in the talk department.

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity.

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity. And I could take advantage of what people later pathologized as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) by using natural stimulation as a main driver to scholarship.

people don't learn so much from their—and other people's—mistakes; rather it is the system that learns by selecting those less prone to a certain class of mistakes and eliminating others.

When there are few choices, McDonald's appears to be a safe bet.

detest the ruthlessness of selection, the inexorable disloyalty of Mother Nature. I detest the notion of improvement thanks to harm to others. As a humanist, I stand against the antifragility of systems at the expense of individuals, for if you follow the reasoning, this makes us humans individually irrelevant.

which does not require knowledge or intelligence, merely rationality in choice.

I later got some plausible explanation from evolutionary psychology, which claims that such physical manifestations of one's performance in life, just like an animal's dominant condition, can be used for signaling: It makes the winners seem easily visible, which is efficient in mate selection.

Such a delicate charge as pruning the human race should not be subject to the quirks of personality.

If we gleaned every asshole," Scythe Volta had once told Rowan, "there'd be virtually no one left.

1) YOU ARRIVED HERE BY NECESSITY. YOU STAY HERE BY CHOICE.

There is a vast difference between the things I can do, and the things I choose to do.

Attention! he announced in full theatrical voice. Attention, all! You have been selected for gleaning today. You are commanded to step forward and meet your demise.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were.

Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

I have consumed more drink than the first one hundred men you will pass on the street or meet in the madhouse. I scratch my belly and dream of the albatross. I have joined the great drunks of the centuries: Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner. I have been selected but by whom?

I checked two ads, went to two places and both of the places hired me. The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.