Incidenti Aerei Quotes & Sayings

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir. — Stanley Kubrick

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. — Bradford Winters

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it. — Saint Augustine

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. — Charles Dickens

Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I — Benjamin Franklin

The civilized East is immeasurably in advance of any savage tribes; the Greeks and Romans have improved upon the East; the Christian nations have been stricter in their views of the marriage relation than any of the ancients. — Plato

I came to Tasmania in search of an elusive species. And I found it. But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to find you. And I believe I found a type of butterfly that exists only in my belly which makes itself known when I think of you. — N.R. Walker

Joseph Stiglitz, with two colleagues, the Orszag brothers (Peter and Jonathan), looked at the very same Fannie Mae. They assessed, in a report, that "on the basis of historical experience, the risk to the government from a potential default on GSE debt is effectively zero."* Supposedly, they ran simulations - but didn't see the obvious. They also said that the probability of a default was found to be "so small that it is difficult to detect." It is statements like these and, to me, only statements like these (intellectual hubris and the illusion of understanding of rare events) that caused the buildup of these exposures to rare events in the economy. This is the Black Swan problem that I was fighting. This is Fukushima. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What will you do with your one precious, wild life? — Mary Oliver