Abraham de Moivre quotes
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“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”
-- Abraham de MoivreSource : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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“Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.”
Source : 1930 'Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something'.
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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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