Top 28 Lindley Quotes
#1. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.
Rich Hall
#2. In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
Lindley Murray
#3. I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.
Ryan Lindley
#4. Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.
Dennis Lindley
#5. The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.
Ryan Lindley
#6. It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
Dennis Lindley
#7. I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!
Ken Hensley
#8. When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there.
Steven Gerrard
#9. If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.
Criss Jami
#10. Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
Dennis Lindley
#11. The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
Dennis Lindley
#12. In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.
Dennis Lindley
#14. Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Swami Vivekananda
#15. Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
Ginetta Sagan
#16. Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
Dennis Lindley
#17. Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.
Dennis Lindley
#18. Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.
Dennis Lindley
#19. In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation - and reason is the best confirmation.
Dennis Lindley
#20. Function expressions and variables declared inside a function without using var become global properties.
Cody Lindley
#21. Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression
Andy Lindley
#22. Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.
Dennis Lindley
#24. It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
Dennis Lindley
#25. Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.
Lindley Murray
#26. There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.
Ryan Lindley
#27. And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.
P.C. Cast
#28. As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, "then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne