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The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.
No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives
No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.
Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.
If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.
PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.