#signal

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. ↗

— Nate Silver

#distinguishing #knowledge #noise #requires #scientific

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. ↗

— David Letterman

#just #new #new york #rough #signals

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#because #bureaucracy #cabinet #committee #environment

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#although #conditions #depends #distance #fall

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. ↗

— Kid Rock

#basement #bought #continuum #decent #fourteen

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#attendant #being #does #every #human

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#being #crowns #enough #history #interestingly

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#hypocrisy #ostentation #signal