People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no body else can see.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
Baseball thinking is midevil. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say anything I get ostrisized. I'm a lepper.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
Ok, think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players it should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins you have to buy runs.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what's really happening. This leaves those who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com
It's an unfair game. Now we've been gutted, organ donors for the rich. Bostons taking our kidneys. Yankee's taking our heart. You guys are taking the same old good body nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio.
— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
Nature is powerful. Nature is beautiful. Nature ever-changing. Don't be afraid to evolve because in order to grow...you cannot stay the same.
I'm going to quiet my cleverness and not look at what is, but potentially what could be.
The ability for the art of inquiry to penetrate our lives versus the art of answers.
We love comfort. And happiness. You know what nature loves and why it thrives? There is mutation. There is disruption. It's easy for people to say hey you need to adapt and you need to evolve. Wait how do I do that? Well, nature is locally attuned. It has an understanding for the essence around it,…
Adapt to changing conditions and evolve to survive.
How can a system fundamentally evolve without drastically changing?
...it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
Mind is a fundamental part of reality, not a byproduct. Yet what if neuroscience did concede, against all odds, that the mind is a non-physical attribute of reality. Where would that take us? The next step in the evolution of scientific thought points away from materialism to a newly fashionable con…
It is disturbing to see that the current debate over evolution has become us-versus-them. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn’t make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawk…
Think of it this way: the more info that we get, the more options we get, the more knowledge we get, and the much higher chance of evolving to a level that perhaps would be unreachable any other way.
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our evolution is perhaps nothing but an expression of poetry that was lost.
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, all is transformed.
To me, being alive means to continue to change, never to be where I was before.
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