"In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless."

-- Fischer Black

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“The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.”
“Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.”
“It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there.”
“To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.”
“But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”
“It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
“If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

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