Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 5 " Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected ." ― Amos Tversky Cited in  Michael Lewis' book " The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds "   featuring the joint work and friendship of two  renowned psychologists:  Daniel Kahneman  and  Amos Tversky .  See  http://covestreetcapital.com/amos-tversky-an-amazing-man/  for more Amos Tversky quotes taken from the book .

Quote of the Week 4 " No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story ." ― Daniel Kahneman Cited in  a 2017  Forbes  and a 2016 Vanity Fair article  that promoted  Michael Lewis' book " The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds " featuring the joint work and friendship of two  renowned psychologists: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky .

Quote of the Week 3 " The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man’s inability to understand the exponential function." ― Albert A. Bartlett Source:  Quote Investigator

Quote of the Week 2 " You shall know a word by the company it keeps." ―  John Rupert Firth Cited in countless publications on Natural Language Processing (NLP) including  Christopher Manning's Stanford 2022 " Lecture 1: Introduction and Word Vectors " (slide #18).

Quote of the Week 1 " As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. " ― Dsch alāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Rumi)

Quote of the Year 2021* " Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " ―  Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire   [CW 1] Runner-up "Software doesn’t age like fine wine; it ages like milk.   Software goes bad over time." ― Josh Corman [CW 29] * as measured by LinkedIn impressions.