"The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action."

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W. Edwards Deming

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“Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.”
“As for kids who are struggling personally, ignore the bullies! Who cares what they think? A lot of the time, they're not thinking, so you shouldn't take their words to heart. Ignore, ignore, ignore, and keep pushing forward.”
“The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.”
“Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.”

Source : Trina Schart Hyman (1989). “Self-portrait: Trina Schart Hyman”, HarperCollins Publishers
“In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.”
“If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.”
“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.”
“The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.”

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