Quotes About Incomplete Information

#1. While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. But being a space flight participant is not really the same as being an astronaut. An astronaut is someone who's able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter.

Chris Hadfield

#3. See, this is why I can't ever be in command," she said. "Don't like making tough calls with incomplete information?" "More I'm not suicidally irresponsible," she replied,

James S.A. Corey

#4. When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Ted Rall

#5. An astronaut is someone who's able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter. I didn't miraculously become one either, after just eight days in space. But I did get in touch with the fact that I didn't even know what I didn't know.

Chris Hadfield

#6. Command responsibility sometimes meant having to make decisions based on incomplete information.

Mark Henrikson

#7. Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Einhorn

#8. Your feelings do not lie to you;
however, they may be based upon a false thought,or a true thought, or based upon incomplete information.

David W. Earle

#9. Isn't that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something ... Incomplete information ... Endless possibilities ... When you don't know much about something, it's the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS

Erol Ozan

#10. If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become ... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?

Muriel Barbery

#11. Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Erica Jong

#13. You think I'm pretty
Without any make-up on
You think I'm funny
When I tell the puch line wrong
I know you get me
So I'll let my walls come down, down

Katy Perry

#14. This is where you're going to tell me you're gay, isn't it?

Dan Skinner

#15. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

#16. So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.

Florence Littauer

#17. Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

Owain Yeoman

#19. Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.

Arlaina Tibensky

#20. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.

Josh Kaufman

#21. Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

Jimmy Carter