José Luis

“Bayes’s theorem deals with epistemological uncertainty—the limits of our knowledge.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“Essa angústia, prolongando-se, arriscava-se a desagregar uma sociedade, assim como pode fender um indivíduo submetido a estresses repetidos. Podia provocar um fenômeno de inadaptação, uma regressão do pensamento e da afetividade, uma multiplicação das fobias; introduzir uma dose excessiva de negatividade e desespero. JEAN DELUMEAU: HISTÓRIA DO MEDO NO OCIDENTE”
― Jean Delumeau, El miedo en Occidente

“Samuel Beckett put it best: “Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”
― Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

“Autumn is the season of subtractions, the Japanese art of taking more and more away to charge the few things that remain. At least four times as many classical poems are set in autumn and spring, the seasons of transition, than in summer and winter. But what that means, I realize as the years pass, is that nothing can be taken for granted; people are on alert, wide awake, ready to seize each day as a blessing because the next one can't be counted on.”
― Pico Iyer, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells