Quotes About Variability

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.†

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Within reason" is not the sort of place one can easily find on a map; in fact, its location may vary considerably from one day to the next.

Of course, we all know that water is transparent and has no taste, smell, or color. What's amazing about water is that it is able to show us myriad "faces" depending upon the condition it is in or the information it is given.

It's partly cloudy and partly windy and partly cold.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

The human face had too possibilities, and they just kept coming in a fast-moving slide show, one after another.

Thomas Sowell once wrote, "Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The evidence from behavior genetics and twin studies indicating that 40 to 50 percent of the variance among people in temperament, personality, and many political, economic, and social preferences are accounted for by genetics.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

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.

People are who they are — give or take 15%.

We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial services are often jarring in this regard: friends and relatives eulogize the deceased in such conflicting terms they might be talking of different people.

People are the masterpieces of randomness.

The book might be the same, but it is obvious that the minds and our understandings are not the same at all.

The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that persuasion.

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.