Variance Quotes

• The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Pythagorean Theorem, Analysis

  "Statistics in agricultural research". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1934.

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• I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Return, Combination

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.67, Random House

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• Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

  Edward Coke

  Mother, Causes, Coke

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• So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Destiny, Men, Littles

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The First Men In The Moon: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

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• We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

  Harry Markowitz

  Doe, Investing, Next

  Harry Markowitz (2009). “Harry Markowitz: Selected Works”, p.15, World Scientific

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• Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, War, Age

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• Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Gulliver, Poor Nations

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Thinking, Two

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

  Bill Belichick

  Quality, Different, Information

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

  Jack Welch

  People, Trying, Stamps

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Unity, Conflict

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• The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Mind, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.57

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• I can be as contrary as I choose.

  Julian Fellowes

  Choices, Novelists, Contradictory

  "Downton Abbey (Episode 2.4)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010-2015.

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• You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Cousin, Reality, Love Is

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.332, Penguin

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• All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Stage

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• What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Desire, Language

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• The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Reality, Emotional, Views

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• We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

  Blaise Pascal

  Feelings, Suffering, Quality

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• Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Names, Jerusalem

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• He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Two, Excess

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• The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.

  Anthony Daniels

  Struggle, Reality, Intellectual

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• The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

  Plato

  Unity, Passionate, Enmity

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.56

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• The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Eye, Green

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• We're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.

  Ilana Mercer

  Individual Differences, Groups, Facts

  "Update V: The Kindness Of (Caucasian) Strangers (On Brotherly Love)". barelyablog.com. January 31, 2010.

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