“The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.” ThinkingWellsFormFrontsEventsParticularDegreesStandardsInsanityCaptainsCrewLifelongAberration Author:Hal Clement
“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.” IfsPastAcceptingOpinionEventsDangerStandardsIdeologyFormulasMeasurementAccuracyHigh StandardsPast EventsFuture Events Author:John Dos Passos
“"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense that the future events are highly variable and unknowable that gives us the best sense for risk.” GivingMeanHappensRiskEventsStandardsVariablesDeviationFuture EventsVariability Author:Elroy Dimson
“The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.” MayFactsDifferencesEventsStandardsProfoundVersionsSubtleStarks Author:William Finnegan
“I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.” YearsFirstsThreeHeardEventsMetsStandardsFirst TimeYears AgoBrandsThree Years Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsYearsKindBigsActionComedyEventsModelsStandardsTheaterStudiosVampireBudgetsBroadsGoing To WorkSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBig Events Author:Billy Bob Thornton