Quotes About Models

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In politics we have bumbled along making the same sort of errors repeatedly.

This transformation involves three dynamics: 1. The identification with shame-based models and the carrying of their unexpressed shame. 2. The trauma of abandonment and the shame binding all one's feelings, needs and drives. 3. The interconnection and magnification of visual memories or scenes, and the retaining of shaming auditory and kinesthetic imprints.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

The standards should reflect the psychological conceptual models, not the physical mechanics.

Knowledge in the head includes conceptual models; cultural, semantic, and logical constraints on behavior; and analogies between the current situation and previous experiences with other situations.

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them. As

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them.

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury , played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar wastes. Models dead on the runways, with their legs facing backward. Children with smiles that can't be undone. Chicken shall rot in the aisles. See the pillars fall.

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

threat assessment models is AOI (ability opportunity, and intent).

There are a number of models. The one we like is Rory Miller's social and asocial violence. It's quick, easy to remember, and– most importantly– it's something you can apply in an actual situation.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.

One can't build a skyscraper out of ideas, and one can't build models without concepts and laws.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

Degas, who did not seem to have taken much personal interest in any of these girls except as models for his paintings, was endlessly interested in their lives, including the older men who hovered so possessively over them. These men, termed "lions," appear again and again in his paintings, sometimes adjusting a costume or sometimes simply watching. Degas

putting in the necessary thinking work and refusing to accept the unattractive trade-offs, we can unleash our ability to build new and better models and create value for the world.

The capstone to the entire edifice of herbal medicine is the effective use of herbs, no matter what models we are using to understand the organism.

New companies have sprung up to offer labeling data as a service; Mighty AI, for example, offers "the labeled data you need to train your computer vision models" and promises "known, verified, and trusted annotators who specialize in autonomous driving data."11 The