A. David Redish: Quotes

Necromancy in the 20th century:

Your computer was wedged because all your daemons were dead.

-- SCS Facilities

Why experimentalists and theoreticians don't get along:

It is not clear to me in what sense this is a "model."

As far as I can tell, it is an equation.

-- An anonymous reviewer

Bark people (n.)

Forget the forest, they can't even see the trees.

-- Heard at Neurosciences 1996.

zoiks! that's a lotta thesis.

-- Brad Wyble.

A P value of .05 means being wrong one time in twenty.

If you lie down, no one will die

-- Robert Bly

The three stages of learning about new data:

1. Denial.

2. "That's obvious."

3. "Didn't I do that a year ago?"

Coffee for the mind, pizza for the body, sushi for the soul.

-- UserFriendly