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Daniel Levitin Quotes

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.

Daniel Levitin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1957

Topics

Knowledge World Problem Assumptions

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Jim Cooper

Failure Better You Results Stop Pay

The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.

Maxine Peake

Music More Always Little Like Bit

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

John Linder

Home You Tax Pay Cost Retail

Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

Tom Douglas

Pizza Cook Make Knows Every Loves

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

Robert Zemeckis

Good Sad You News Hand Office

Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interplay between the two sets the prices, so a government-regulated price for 'equal access' might be difficult to set.

Marvin Ammori

Price Google Difficult Two Equal

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Josh Brolin

Power Trust Enough You Tell Things

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Josefa Iloilo

Day Differences Strive Togetherness

I don't think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But... if you want to continue to write your own songs, you've got to find deeper stuff to write about. You've got to go to different places.

Dierks Bentley

Music Think You Find Go Want

If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.

Donna Brazile

Work Heart Support Doing You Want

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Doug Larson

Boss Impossible Will Your Add Means

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Christopher Buckley

Alone Children Time Child Become