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“I feel like if they can handle me, they can probably handle any crowd on the road or any kind of adversity that may come up in a game.”
― Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
― Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
“This is essentially why gold is still valuable in the twenty-first century. If gathered together, all the gold ever mined would fit inside a large town house.”
― Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
― Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
“When catastrophe strikes, we look for a signal in the noise - anything that might explain the chaos that we see all around us and bring order to the world again.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
“Your moment-to-moment expectations, more than the visual distinctiveness of the object, determine what you see—and what you miss.”
― The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
― The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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