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Music for Airports
“My favorite is Music for Airports. It’s an oldie but a goodie. Most people rate Another Green World, but I just love the Ambient Star.”
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Tim Harford
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01 / belief
Like anything, there’s a sweet spot and it’s possible to overdo it, but I think that people fear multiple projects more than they should.
“Like anything, there’s a sweet spot and it’s possible to overdo it, but I think that people fear multiple projects more than they should.”
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02 / belief
Then I went to work at the World Bank IFC, at a department that was part of both organizations. That, I think, was the time we met.
“Then I went to work at the World Bank IFC, at a department that was part of both organizations. That, I think, was the time we met.”
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03 / belief
There’s obviously a risk in stripping away too much complexity — you strip away something that turned out to be very important. But in principle, I think we aspire to be, and often are quite good at, drawing analogies where things do not seem to be analogous and to say this thing is actually quite like this other thing, and drawing insight from that.
“There’s obviously a risk in stripping away too much complexity — you strip away something that turned out to be very important. But in principle, I think we aspire to be, and often are quite good at, drawing analogies where things do not seem to be analogous and to say this thing is actually quite like this other thing, and drawing insight from that.”
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04 / belief
I think some of the analysis coming from inside the UK suggests it might be twice that.
“I think some of the analysis coming from inside the UK suggests it might be twice that.”
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05 / belief
I think we’re — relative to the average person, even the average academic — I think we’re pretty good at mathematical thinking.
“I think we’re — relative to the average person, even the average academic — I think we’re pretty good at mathematical thinking.”
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06 / belief
I think there were probably numerous people who could have claimed that at the same time, but yes.
“I think there were probably numerous people who could have claimed that at the same time, but yes.”
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07 / belief
I should also say in Adapt, I do emphasize the importance of small experiments that give you a tremendous amount of information at the lowest possible cost. And I’m not sure Brexit has yet qualified, but I think you could say that about the EU as well.
“I should also say in Adapt, I do emphasize the importance of small experiments that give you a tremendous amount of information at the lowest possible cost. And I’m not sure Brexit has yet qualified, but I think you could say that about the EU as well.”
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08 / belief
I think he’s possibly also underrated by fans of Shannon, who are frustrated that he spent most of the second half of his life noodling around, building wearable computers, trying to cheat the casino at Las Vegas, and juggling, and sending in weird poems to journals, rather than actually analyzing things, and just seemed to behave in a very, very frustrating way, and never really settled down, and ride off the back of his fame.
“I think he’s possibly also underrated by fans of Shannon, who are frustrated that he spent most of the second half of his life noodling around, building wearable computers, trying to cheat the casino at Las Vegas, and juggling, and sending in weird poems to journals, rather than actually analyzing things, and just seemed to behave in a very, very frustrating way, and never really settled down, and ride off the back of his fame.”
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09 / belief
Let’s focus on what counts. It is astonishing that this organization, this institution that is now about 800, 900 years old, is still going, is still one of the — rightly, I think — one of the most admired universities in the world.
“Let’s focus on what counts. It is astonishing that this organization, this institution that is now about 800, 900 years old, is still going, is still one of the — rightly, I think — one of the most admired universities in the world.”
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10 / belief
I think people would appreciate it, and everybody likes honey, and people have valued bees for a long time.
“I think people would appreciate it, and everybody likes honey, and people have valued bees for a long time.”
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11 / belief
I think the people who like to rehearse end up rehearsing too much and being too stiff and not being willing to adapt to circumstances, whereas the people who are happy to improvise don’t rehearse enough, and so their comments are ill formed and ill considered.
“I think the people who like to rehearse end up rehearsing too much and being too stiff and not being willing to adapt to circumstances, whereas the people who are happy to improvise don’t rehearse enough, and so their comments are ill formed and ill considered.”
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12 / belief
” I realized that this was a very weird process because in the end, we were all sitting in a room in Washington.
“” I realized that this was a very weird process because in the end, we were all sitting in a room in Washington.”
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13 / belief
Although I wasn’t very conscious of it, to observe how the Daily Mail and the Guardian and the Telegraph and the Times and the Sun — these classic British newspapers — might all report the exact same event, and to see how different their takes were, I think is a useful education.
“Although I wasn’t very conscious of it, to observe how the Daily Mail and the Guardian and the Telegraph and the Times and the Sun — these classic British newspapers — might all report the exact same event, and to see how different their takes were, I think is a useful education.”
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14 / belief
The curious thing — that polarization, I think, is familiar to anyone who studies American politics — but the curious thing is that it was crosscutting.
“The curious thing — that polarization, I think, is familiar to anyone who studies American politics — but the curious thing is that it was crosscutting.”
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