Zitat des Tages über Vermutungen / Guesses:
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth's resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.
Second guesses in putting are fatal.
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
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.