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Lawrence Shepp

Lawrence Shepp quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.”
-- Lawrence Shepp

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“Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.”
-- Lawrence Shepp

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“Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud.”
-- Lawrence Shepp

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“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.”
“Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.”
“The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.”
“The hand is no different from what it creates.”
“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”
“He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.”
“We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.”
“A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.”
“Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything”
“I just talk a lot, that's the problem.”

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