R A Fisher Quotes

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

Writers, we can't please everyone, nor should we try.

No Tax on Liquor(also known as the Who’s for a Party Party)

Kidnappings made for ransom were fast and messy; guns pointed at your head, urgent demands. Not keypads on the door and enough food to last through one of George R.R. Martin's long winters.

Are you really as good as they say?” “No,” she said calmly. “We’re better.

Every day there’s something which makes me think ‘I’d better ask Dad about that, I wonder what Mother would say…’ and then I remember, and the day seems a little colder.

I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!

A well told story is just a stranger caressing your intellect.

Rich kids—they can never admit they’re rich.

The sun comes up, the sun goes down...and people are assholes. What other truths do you need to know to get through your day?" - Dmitri, Reapers of Magic and War

Look closely upon your shadow, it too is filled full with your sins, just as you are. It's silence of them does not mean it has forgiven your.” - R.E. Fisher

Honest truths from lesser men are always better than lesser truths from honest men.

We are quite in danger of sending highly trained and intelligent young men out in the word with tables of erroneous numbers under their arms, and with a dense fog in the place where their brains ought to be.

Men's ideas, though, continue to run in the old channels about oysters as well as God and war and women. Even when they know better they insist that months with R in them are all right, but that oysters in June or July or May or August will kill you or make you wish they had. This is wrong, of course, except that all oysters, like all men, are somewhat weaker after they have done their best at reproducing.

In addition to being flat-out hard to do, building effectiveness into an organization often comes into direct conflict with increasing efficiency. This is an unfortunate side effect of optimization, first noted by the geneticist R. A. Fisher, and now referred to as Fisher’s fundamental theorem: “The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.” Fisher’s example was the giraffe. It is highly adapted to food found up among the tree branches, but so unadaptable to a new situation that it can not even pick up a peanut from the ground at the zoo. The more optimized an organism (organization) is, the more likely that the slack necessary to help it become more effective has been eliminated.

Fisher and Mitrany warned that Western advocates of expulsion should not delude themselves that the same tactic would not be used against them in their turn. In Africa, Asia, and the Middle East white minority communities were also to be found. “Their presence and interests have always been used to justify intervention on their behalf by the home states. Therefore the ‘solution’ adopted in Europe for ending the trouble with minorities would very soon come to be used for ‘transferring’ European minorities … back to their home countries.”81

I'll say it now, some of you won't like my stories. I don't write them for the reader who has to be led, I write them for the reader who loves to explore!

Ethereum and banks Now you may wonder as to what impact Ethereum has on banks and vice versa, well, Ethereum is said to be a great influence on banks. As you know, banks put in a lot of effort towards safeguarding their customers; money and interest. This can lead to high cost of maintenance. By switching to Ethereum, banks have the chance to save on some of these costs and also provide high-level safety through the use of Blockchains. Many banks including HSBC, Barclays and other such have joined hands with R3, a company that is testing out Blockchains for banks. Once they manage to set up the systems, banks will find it easier to provide customers with the choice to deal in ETH. Version

Howard Rheingold: And it was all just words on a screen! R. U. Sirius: These were just text-based bulletin boards, but in many ways they were superior to social media today. You had really great conversations with extraordinary people. Larry Brilliant: Because it was Stewart, he attracted people who had these incredibly eclectic minds, and they were phenomenal writers, people who think in paragraphs. And the writing was fantastic! Kevin Kelly: That made for a very literate salon-like environment where people who could write were writing—and writing well and writing very directly. So some of the best writing I think of that decade was happening on The Well. Larry Brilliant: So just the opposite of Twitter. Lee Felsenstein: The Well, for its first five years at least, was the San Francisco bohemian scene online, where you could join the roundtable of whatever-it-was. There was a whole bunch of roundtables. And in there were the people who were the ones you had read about and so forth. Or had firsthand connections with the people you read about. San Francisco had had such a scene since the nineteenth century. And here it came direct to your home at your fingertips.

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In the 1950s Detroit was undergoing changes in the city and factories with enormous political consequences. When I arrived in Detroit the city had just begun Urban Renewal (which blacks renamed “Negro Removal”) in the area near downtown where most blacks were concentrated. Hastings Street and John R, the two main thoroughfares that were the hub of the commerce and nightlife of the black community, were still alive with pedestrians. Large sections of the inner city, however, were being bulldozed to build the Ford Freeway crisscrossing the city from east to west, the Lodge Freeway bisecting the city from north to south, and the Fisher and Chrysler Freeways coming from Toledo and proceeding all the way north to the Upper Peninsula. These freeways were built to make it easy to live in the suburbs and work in the city and at the same time to expand the car market. So in 1957 whites began pouring out of the city by the tens of thousands until by the end of the decade one out of every four whites who had lived in the city had left. Their exodus left behind thousands of houses and apartments for sale and rental to blacks who had formerly been confined inside Grand Boulevard, a horseshoe-shaped avenue delimiting the inner city, many of whom had been uprooted by Negro Removal. Blacks who had been living on the East Side, among them Annie Boggs, began buying homes on the West Side and the North End. The black community was not only expanding but losing the cohesiveness it had enjoyed (or endured) when it was jammed together on the Lower East Side. New neighbors no longer served as extended family to the young people growing up in the new black neighborhoods. Small businesses owned by blacks and depending on black customers went bankrupt, eliminating an entrepreneurial middle class that had played a key role in stabilizing the community. By the end of the 1950s one-fourth of the buildings inside the Boulevard stood vacant. At the same time all Americans, regardless of race, creed, or national origin, were being seduced by the consumerism being fostered by large corporations so that they could sell the abundance of goods coming off the American assembly lines. All around us in the black community parents were determined to give their children “the things I didn’t have.

He always had some experiment or another on the go, usually involving boiling liquids and unpleasant smells. Always something bubbling in the cauldron or cooking in the small stone oven. One wall was hidden behind rows of metal cages, set one upon the other; containing animals and birds and reptiles and a few other things not so easily identified. Because you never knew when you'd need a subject to try something out on. And of course there were shelves and shelves of glass jars, holding herbs and insect parts, mandrake root and other disturbing things. Some of the things in the jars were still moving. Because alchemy's like that.

Associated with Habit 6: Synergize is the endowment of creativity—the creation of something. How? By yourself? No, through two respectful minds communicating, producing solutions that are far better than what either proposed originally. Most negotiation is positional bargaining and results at best in compromise. But when you get into synergistic communication, you leave position. You understand basic underlying needs and interests and find solutions to satisfy them both. Two Harvard professors, Roger Fisher and William Ury, in their book Getting to Yes, outline a whole new approach to negotiation. Instead of assuming two opposing positions—“I want that window open.” “No, closed.” “No, open.”—with occasional compromise (half-open half the time) they saw the possibility of synergy. “Why do you want it open?” “Well, I like the fresh air.” “Why do you want it closed?” “I don’t like the draft.” “What can we do that would give the fresh air without the draft?” Now, two creative people who have respect for each other and who understand each other’s needs might say, “Let’s open the window in the next room. Let’s rearrange the furniture. Let’s open the top part of the window. Let’s turn on the air-conditioning.” They seek new alternatives because they are not defending positions. Whenever there’s a difference, say, “Let’s go for a synergistic win/win. Let’s listen to each other. What is your need?

Well, basically, I thought I’d cut the creature’s heart out and jam the suppressor stone into the hole,” said Hawk. “That should ruin its day.” “Lets do it, before we get an attack of common sense and change our minds

You’re a bodyguard. You’re supposed to have a face like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle. I’m the Queen, dammit. I have to look radiant. It’s expected of me.

This brings us to the saddest episode int he whole smoking-cancer controversy: the deliberate efforts of the tobacco companies to deceive the public about the health risks. If Nature is like a genie that answers a question truthfully but only exactly as it is asked, imagine how much more difficult it is for scientists to face an adversary that intends to deceive us. The cigarette wars were science’s first confrontation with organized denialism, and no one was prepared.The tobacco companies magnified any shred of scientific controversy they could. They set up their own Tobacco Industry Research Committee, a front organization that gave money to scientists to study issues related to cancer or tobacco—but somehow never got around to the central question. When they could find legitimate skeptics of the smoking-cancer connection—such as R. A.Fisher and Jacob Yerushalmy—the tobacco companies paid them consulting fees.

What have I learned? I'm not really sure but it seems that tears are the chains that bind us. How many times have you wept and forgotten the reasons? Never. Yet, the reasons for our smiles and laughter are forgotten as quickly as our midnight dreams." - Dog Whistle Blues

I know I'm not that intimidating, but I also know, neither are you. So take your magic and kiss my apple sized ass!" - Winston the Shelfling, Reapers of Magic and War

I write to cause pain for my readers, something I avoid in real life...usually." - R.E. Fisher

Dreams remembered, and written about, are nothing but the stories of others living throughout all of the worlds, in all of the universes. It's the only time gossip is not frowned upon." - R.E. Fisher

What are you looking at?" Tetra asked Winston, seeing him sitting on the steps of the Acolytes Hall. "That dewy spider web," he said as he pointed. Tetra glanced at the water-laden web, "Why?" "Because it's like life. There's always something lurking around to pounce on you.

ONE As from the pow’r of Sacred Lays The Spheres began to move; And sung the great Creator’s praise

In the British statistician R. A. Fisher’s famous formulation, “the ‘one chance in a million’ will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

probably a ventriloquist. You’ve seen one of those before, haven’t

History

A lot of the old songs and stories have been terribly whitewashed, cleaned up and sanitised, for modern ears. Don’t want anything that might upset people . . . Idiots! History is supposed to be upsetting, to make sure you don’t do it again!