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" The key thing when you short is to make sure you’re not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value. " - Whitney Tilson

" Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? " - J. M. Coetzee

" Big data sets are never complete. " - Kate Crawford

" By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones. " - Daniel Kahneman

" The eye binds light, is itself a bound light. This binding is a reproductive synthesis, a Habitus. " - Gilles Deleuze

" The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do… For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it’s probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing. " - Scott Adams

" Writing’s a great skill, but thinking’s a better one. " - Meg Rosoff

" I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture. " - Story Musgrave

" Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes. " - Vernon Howard

" Never look for the story in the ‘lede.’ Reporters are required to put what’s happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. " - William Safire