Irrera Messina Quotes & Sayings

What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going?
-Mr. Map — Catherynne M Valente

If you love a man for his honesty, you cannot become angry when he shows it. — Sarah Dunant

Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a big laboratory, a staff of research assistants, a reduction in teaching load, a better salary, the finer wines of Bordeaux. Precision, knowledge, and control. In a narrow and cynical sense statistical significance is the way to achieve these. Design experiment. Then calculate statistical significance. Publish articles showing "significant" results. Enjoy promotion.

But it is not science, and it will not last. — Stephen Thomas Ziliak

You said it to me once. It was the last day we had together. And that was 39 days ago. I can still hear your whisper loud as a horn in my ears, when you told me that you love me. This memory is so clear in my head, as if it were yesterday. Even though I am not sure how to describe your voice, how it sounds, these three words you said. I know. And I have to trust them. — D.S. Wrights

You can steal someone's Art,
But not their Heart.
You can immitate them,
But you can never be like them.
You can hurt them,
But you cannot kill their will to love again.
You can leave,
But your space will always be filled by someone better than you. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1. — Warren Buffett

I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets. — Carla H. Krueger