Quotes About Variation

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

You know what they say, " Amanda said. "Hatred isn't the opposite of love, it's just another variation of it. They both mean you have passionate feelings for someone.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn't so when stripped of personal risks.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

considering that alternative outcomes could have taken place, that the world could have been different, is the core of probabilistic thinking.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

after the event you start predicting the possibility of other outliers happening locally, that is, in the process you were just surprised by, but not elsewhere. After

The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Just look at how different the large stone is from the pebbles:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Diversity here has to do with the degree of uncertainty inherent in the process.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

a) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situations: 90,000, then 110,000 cars on the one hand, or 100,000 cars on the other.

Now run the idea in reverse:

A random series will always present some detectable pattern. I

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

it is easier for your brain to detect differences rather than absolutes

When your sample is large, no single instance will significantly change the aggregate or the total.