Eddingers Quotes

#1. If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

Kamila Shamsie

#2. But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

Mary Oliver

#4. Danny quickly changed the topic and all talk of Heather and Graham was well and truly forgotten with marriage banished from the minds of most, but not all of the party.

B.R. Maycock

#5. Changing course is never easy.

Brian Sandoval

#6. It seems to me that now - suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything - is when we need knowledge the most.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.

William Poundstone

#8. If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

Joe Montana

#9. When knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#10. Who's the clown in life, the one with the two faces and characters or the persons who Laugh about them?

Jan Jansen