Quotes About Interpretation

People don't clamour for rules, even in the Bible

So, I'm communicating, as Freud so rightly stressed, even when silent.

Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand. When we teach mathematics we are supposed to be explaining how to be that guide. A math course that fails to do so is essentially training the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel.

Don't talk about percentages of numbers when the numbers might be negative.

In modern terms we would say that the more strongly correlated the measurements, the less information, in Shannon's precise sense, a Bertillon card conveys.

Assessing the scale of the p-hacking problem is not so easy—

Data is messy, and inference is hard.

linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand. When we teach mathematics we are supposed to be explaining how to be that guide. A math course that fails to do so is essentially training the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel.

Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand.

Geometry is the cilantro of math.

All mathematical writing is creative writing.

You can do linear regression without thinking about whether the phenomenon you're modeling is actually close to linear. But you shouldn't.

Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.

Hay palabras que después de ser escritas ya no valen. Hay palabras que después de ser dichas no han sido oídas. Hay palabras que después de ser escuchadas lloran. Palabras. Sólo palabras. Todas las inocencias están huérfanas de palabras.

Eu não entendo nada de pintura, não posso criticar. Mas o que eu gostaria de saber é que coisa o pintor quis mostrar com essa complicação... João olhou a tela mais uma vez: — Antes de tudo ele quis não mostrar a realidade. É uma das maneiras de fazer arte contra o povo. —

El sordo siempre cree que los que bailan están locos.

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Pero si la historia de México que se enseña es aburrida no es por culpa de los acontecimientos, que son variados y muy interesantes, sino porque a los que la confeccionaron no les interesaba tanto presentar el pasado, como justificar el presente.

Para él el trato humano es comunicación de cerebro a cerebro, esto quiere decir, entre hombres, porque ¿quién va a saber lo que tienen en la cabeza las mujeres?

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.

el narrador es tan solo el ojo que se pasea sobre los hechos y los ordena. Su mirada es la pregunta, aquí no hay respuestas, solo la perplejidad de lo real.

He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on it; he wanted to go along with it and on it, as if supported by a friend or carried by a vehicle, into a sphere where sublimated sensations would arouse within him an unexpected commotion, the causes of which he would strive to patiently and even vainly to analyse.