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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.
I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result of terrorist act.
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.
Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.
If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
Ultimately you want to optimize championship probability over some window. But if you literally take that to the logical extreme, you would be doing crazy stuff.
The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me down and I'm going to break his nose with my knee.
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.
In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher.
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.