Cazalots Quotes & Sayings

[A formula for answering controversial letters
without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. — H.L. Mencken

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence. — Frederick Lenz

On another occasion, Amos and I wondered about the rate of divorce among professors in our university. We noticed that the question triggered a search of memory for divorced professors we knew or knew about, and that we judged the size of categories by the ease with which instances came to mind. We called this reliance on the ease of memory search the availability heuristic. — Daniel Kahneman

In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign.
("The Wide Net") — Eudora Welty

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross