Assalum Quotes & Sayings

Say your boss has been taking longer than usual to respond to your e-mails. Many people would take that as a sign that their star is falling because if your star is falling, the chances are high that your boss will respond to your e-mails more slowly than before. But your boss might be slower in responding because she is unusually busy or her mother is ill. And so the chances that your star is falling if she is taking longer to respond are much lower than the chances that your boss will respond more slowly if your star is falling. The appeal of many conspiracy theories depends on the misunderstanding of this logic. That is, it depends on confusing the probability that a series of events would happen if it were the product of a huge conspiracy with the probability that a huge conspiracy exists if a series of events occurs. The effect on the probability that an event will occur if or given that other events occur is what Bayes's theory is all about. To — Leonard Mlodinow

Please tell me it's not like eighty degrees in Malibu."
"It's not. It's raining, which means the natives are convinced the end is near and are engaged in ritual auto pileups in an attempt to appease the angry gods. — D.B. Reynolds

Mack likes to say that they all got their good looks from him, ... cuz Nan still has hers. — Wm. Paul Young

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath. — David Platt

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart. — Ryan Adams

Leaders do not bring themselves low to damage a feeling of friendship and fellowship with God. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman. — Key Ballah

If the opening chapters of Genesis portray God as a creative artist, then it only stands to reason that the people he made in his image will also be artists. Art is an imaginative activity, and in the act of creating, we reflect the mind of our Maker. — Philip Graham Ryken