“There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.” TryingLittlesEasyBitsIndustryAmountLittle BitPicksSellsEnormousBunchTendenciesDataBiasCherries Author:Burt Rutan
“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.” KnowsWritingLittlesKidsEasyStuffBlackFarmsGrandfatherLittle KidSpidersMy GrandfatherWidowsBoyhoodBlack Widow Author:Kary Mullis
“It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.” LittlesCharacterEasyBitsDisciplineLittle BitTrackStrainRight TrackUndisciplined Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.” PeopleKindLittlesFallEasyAttitudeTroubleSatisfiedTendenciesMaturityOld PeopleTherapeuticReassuring Book:I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home Source: I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home
“The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.” PeopleIfsNeedsLittlesEasyBitsIdentityProtectLittle BitPoliceStealingEducatedConsumersSmarterWiserSkepticalTheftIdentity Theft Author:Frank Abagnale
“It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!” LittlesDifferentWarFeelingsSongFightingEasyFieldsVictoryTenGloryMadSoldierMortalsCheerThrillBucks Author:Robert W. Service
“Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married.” PeopleMayLittlesEasyMissingGayMarriedCaliforniaChickensFloridaGay PeoplePiggyRest EasyMiss Piggy Author:Samantha Ronson
“I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.” PeopleThinkingWorldMayLittlesEasyTechnologyShareDangerousFieldsBillsGatesTechnologicalGeneralizationMusk Author:Rodney Brooks
“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.” KnowsMenWorldMayLittlesDoeSometimesSongEasyCompanyMoralLaughingToo MuchKeysHealthyLowsEthicsVery GoodProductivityLoudGood ManStomachOrganismsHormonesAnd OffBiologistGood CompanyMoodyTenorsMoral EthicsUlcersBlacksmiths Author:John Steinbeck
“Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.” MenWorldLittlesLongCareSufferingEasyEconomicStageOutside World Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses” LittlesHardDreamEasyBitsEffortToo MuchPlansDisciplineLittle BitMassScary Author:Chris Murray
“Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.” HumansLittlesPhilosophyEasyViewsArgumentWeakSatisfactionLimitationTriumphOpponentsScore Author:Peter Singer