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- <blockquote> Come, said Slartibartfast, you are to meet the mice. Your arrival on <div align=right>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy<br> ...25 KB (3,920 words) - 23:39, 19 May 2008
- June 28, 2010 to August 12, 2010 ...gnore the knowledge we already have or postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time."</blockquote> ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 00:25, 2 May 2012
- February 21, 2014 to April 5, 2014 ...ics it's enough for our results to be cool. In psychology they're supposed to be ...29 KB (4,378 words) - 17:15, 7 April 2014
- June 12, 2012 to July 18, 2012 <div align=right>--paraphrase of Keynes, sometimes attributed to Melvin R. Novick</div> ...38 KB (5,881 words) - 20:14, 16 October 2012
- ...~rockmore/WSJ.pdf As the stakes increase, Prime-Number theory Moves Closer to Proof]<br> <center> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/wikividios/primeWSJ.jpg</center> ...35 KB (5,850 words) - 19:33, 1 September 2005
- ...ion keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~ Robert Wilensky </blockquote> ...~rockmore/WSJ.pdf As the stakes increase, Prime-Number theory Moves Closer to Proof]<br> ...35 KB (5,882 words) - 19:47, 1 September 2005
- <blockquote>Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts.<br> ...e buying fire insurance on your neighbor’s house — you create an incentive to burn down the house.<br> Philip Gisdakis, head of credit strategy at UniCre ...25 KB (3,740 words) - 16:06, 6 May 2010
- July 21, 2015 to September 12, 2015 “[A]ccording to preliminary 2014 statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board, ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 16:04, 14 August 2018
- April 6, 2014 to June 5, 2014 ...ial advisers found that those who claimed they knew what stocks were going to do were seen as more credible than those who expressed uncertainty …." ...31 KB (4,752 words) - 21:36, 12 June 2014
- August 13, 2010 to September 30, 2010 ...aler in [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/business/economy/22view.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=estimate&st=cse The overconfidence problem in forecasting], ''New ...33 KB (5,188 words) - 15:43, 25 June 2012
- ...[according to Zipf's law], to a good approximation, inversely proportional to its rank [within its country]. Why this should be true, no one knows. </blo [http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/math-and-the-city/?em The New York Times] <br>May 19 2009<br> ...47 KB (7,378 words) - 11:54, 11 July 2011
- June 6, 2014 to August 13, 2014 <div align=right>--Tim Harford, in: [http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/59bb202c-ca7b-11e3-8a31-00144feabdc0.html#axzz37B1vfyTV The random risks of ...37 KB (5,697 words) - 15:30, 14 September 2015