Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
- John MajorDelta management has not come to us saying we are working on this deal or that deal. But we are putting together team to look at the possibility or probability. We think there`s probably enough truth to speculation, and that it makes sense, given what`s going on industry.
- Karen MillerIf scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar BushThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham LincolnIt would, if carried out, create a Virtual America, an America based upon a sampling, an imputation, a probability, a likelihood.
- David MurrayIf that`s true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there`s a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that`s not a given.
- Keith AndersonFourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
- David EllisWe expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricing in 100 percent probability of that happening.
- Larry JonesThey basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,
- Michio KakuMedicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
- William OslerThey have the highest probability of mixing with birds that are coming from England, across Greenland, to the eastern Canadian Arctic or from Russia into Alaska.
- Joe JohnsonIt is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
- Al BrickerA property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
- Alba QuinonesWhat is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
- Alexander LibermanOne important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
- Alison MacphersonBut to us, probability is the very guide of life.
- Allan RossThe fact that we don`t keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
- André GlucksmannThe Welsh language is one of the oldest in Europe. It possesses poems the origin of which is referred with probability to the sixth century.
- Andrew BozoianWe didn`t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
- Andrew StuckeyWhen Mr. Fisher joined Eastman Kodak, I was a shareholder with great anticipation that he would take a technological problem and make it into a technological opportunity, ... Lou Gerstner did that at IBM. I thought there was a possibility, actually a probability, that we`d get that out of George Fisher. Unfortunately it hasn`t happened yet.
- Athletics Director Scott RadukaThe greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
- Ayad AllawiFrom principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- Tom StoppardWhether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There`s no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there`s 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won`t be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.
- Avram Noam Chomsky