Xvxn Though My Typewriter Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work. — Jason Mraz

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand. — John F. Kennedy

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work. — Vikram Seth

The exaggerated faith in small samples is only one example of a more general illusion - we pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality. Statistics produce many observations that appear to beg for causal explanations but do not lend themselves to such explanations. Many facts of the world are due to chance, including accidents of sampling. Causal explanations of chance events are inevitably wrong. — Daniel Kahneman

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. — Larry Wall

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life. — Ezra Miller

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb