Tetlock's Quotes

#1. Tetlock's words, even when their predictions prove

Steven D. Levitt

#2. There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Anne Lamott

#3. No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.

Thomas Pynchon

#4. produce forecast-wrecking

Philip E. Tetlock

#5. Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, explored these so-called expert predictions in a landmark twenty-year study, which he published in his 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

Daniel Kahneman

#6. For scientists, not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover; the more that is unknown, the greater the opportunity.

Philip E. Tetlock

#7. The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be.

Nate Silver

#8. So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.

Philip E. Tetlock

#9. I never forgot that, because, though I was only a child, something seemed to become clear to me: this is existence as such confronting time as such; and that confrontation, I understood, is named boredom.

Milan Kundera

#10. Everyone needs all the awareness of sarcoma they can get. Twelve thousand people get diagnosed a year. That's too many. One percent of cancers are sarcomas, and about 15% of pediatric cancers are sarcomas.

Peri Gilpin

#11. There was something about being cared for," she thought. Something magical.

Ted Naifeh

#12. We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Jay McInerney

#13. Christmas succeeds Christmas rather than the days it follows.

John Crowley

#14. Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.

Thomas Szasz

#15. Like the tiny droplets of water make the huge ocean!, similarly little daily doses of practice will take you to greater glories.

Tina Sequeira