
“There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 2, “Probability and Coincidence” (p. 44)
"Connection", from Elastica (1995)
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“There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 2, “Probability and Coincidence” (p. 44)
“… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 46
“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.”
Source: We Were Liars
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
“Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.”
as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 203]