Brian Christian Quotes
Giving yourself more time to decide about something does not necessarily mean that you'll make a better decision. But it does guarantee that you'll end up considering more factors, more hypotheticals, more pros and cons, and thus risk overfitting.
Quotes to Explore
-
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
-
As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.
-
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
-
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
-
In proper men there is hidden a light which darkness makes visible. I believe that the hope of mankind is in this buried glory; the spirit which makes true men hang on to the throats of their enemies at the very rim of the grave.
-
Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
-
The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.
-
After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey.
-
I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
-
I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
-
We were mighty short of infielders in those days
-
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.
-
Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can.
-
The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.
-
Giving yourself more time to decide about something does not necessarily mean that you'll make a better decision. But it does guarantee that you'll end up considering more factors, more hypotheticals, more pros and cons, and thus risk overfitting.
