Quotes About Comparison

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface.

The politicians in Ireland speak Gaelic the way the Real Housewives of Orange County speak French.

After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir.

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. "It

After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?

Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef.

After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else? "I

Meehl's book, called Clinical versus Statistical Prediction, had shown that psychoanalysts who tried to predict what would become of their neurotic patients fared poorly compared to simple algorithms.

A loss, according to the theory, was when a person wound up worse off than his "reference point." But what was this reference point? The easy answer was: wherever you started from.

A trader who expects to be given a million-dollar bonus, and who further expects everyone else on his trading desk to be given million-dollar bonuses, will not maintain the same reference point if he learns that everyone else just received two million dollars. If he is then paid a million dollars, he is back in the domain of losses.

How a switch made by Cisco compared to a switch made by Juniper.

You have to figure out what the model is good and bad at, and what humans are good and bad at," said Morey. Humans sometimes had access to information that the model did not, for instance.

Cambiando el contexto en que se comparan dos cosas se ocultan ciertos rasgos y emergen otros a la superficie

Danny sensed already that he was very like his mother and not at all like his father. His feelings about himself were complicated.

those with the least training (graduate students) were just as accurate as the fully trained ones (paid pros)

It's easy to have no observable health effects when you never look," the medical director of the Lawrence Livermore lab said, back in the 1980s, after seeing how the private contractors who ran Hanford studied the matter. In her jaw-dropping 2013 book Plutopia, University of Maryland historian Kate Brown compares and contrasts American plutonium production at Hanford and its Soviet twin, Ozersk.

East Germans are the Greeks of Germany," I say. "Be careful," she says.

You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry.

You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The

says. "There's only one Moses, but I'm not sure there's a Moses here." But Howard Mudd, who coached the Chargers' offensive line at the time, an

England in August 1914 was more of a state than she was during the great industrial strikes of 1911–1912.

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

A thought struck me as I left – the bags in which you are given food at McDonald's are almost identical in texture, shape and size with the vomit bags tucked in the seat pockets of aircraft.

A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good.