Barry Chazan

“We have defined noise as undesirable variability in judgments of the same problem. Since singular problems are never exactly repeated, this definition does not apply to them. After all, history is only run once. You will never be able to compare Obama’s decision to send”
― Daniel Kahneman, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

“a mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained…. [It] is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet. Meaning, it’s not a question of skill, but of a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation. It is the spirit of the earth.”
― Michael Posner, Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2

“Depression has been an issue with me for the whole of my life and I’ve tried, like everybody else, various ways of dealing with that depression. You know, drugs, women, art, religion ... you try everything … Depression isn’t just the blues. It’s not just like I’ve a hangover for the weekend … it’s a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you’re gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit … I’ve had to deal with this most of my life like many other people and I’ve finally found a place like this where there are a lot of people like me.”
― Harry Freedman, Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius