John Tukey Quotes
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
Quotes to Explore
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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It has been claimed that Dr. Weishaupt was an atheist, a Cabalistic magician, a rationalist, a mystic; a democrat, a socialist, an anarchist, a fascist; a Machiavellian amoralist, an alchemist, a totalitarian and an 'enthusiastic philanthropist.' (The last was the verdict of Thomas Jefferson, by the way.)
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
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You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.
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Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.
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God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
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In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
