"As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful."

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Source : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

#Numbers Quotes #Reliability Quotes #Information Quotes

“I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles!”
“I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ***** off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.”
“The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.”

Source : Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
“I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.”

Source : Merrill C. Tenney (1997). “John: The Gospel of Belief”, p.215, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”
“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.”

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