#tis

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. ↗

— Nate Silver

#different #different things #perceive #really #statistically

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. ↗

— Nate Silver

#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. ↗

— Ron Silver

#careers #damage #fear #public #retribution

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#always #any #around #circle #directly

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again. ↗

— Dave Sim

#american #happen #just #keep #leftists

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good. ↗

— Paul Simon

#bargain #being #first #good #i

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do. ↗

— Paul Simon

#done #everything #good #good job #i

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives. ↗

— Paul Simon

#elements #his #i #life #lives

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. ↗

— Paul Simon

#always #artistic #been #change #find