Bayesian Quotes

#1. The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

Katarina Witt

#2. Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Aldous Huxley

#4. War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

Kenny Anderson

#6. Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

Don Berry

#7. My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Marquis De Sade

#8. If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian - if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate - you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.

Brian Christian

#9. To search is more blessed than to find, Gissler thinks.

Judith Schalansky

#10. Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

Charles Dickens

#11. Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.

John Barrowman

#12. The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Walter Bagehot

#13. I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Edward De Bono

#14. The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.

Jim Berger

#15. I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

Joe Namath