"It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it."

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Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 41), 1968.

Anthony Stafford Beer

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“There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.”
“I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows nothing. Playing with jazzmen and knowing nothing about jazz. Playing pop music and knowing nothing about how to structure a pop song. And the funny thing, which still surprises me, is that I continue to be invited to play by new people, from different areas, every day.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I never cared what kind of grade I got.”
“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.”
“One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.”

Source : Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (2007). “The Customs of the Kingdoms of India”, Penguin Group USA
“He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9147, Delphi Classics
“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”
“There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.”

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