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Essence Quotes - Page 57

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Anne Edwards (1988). “A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn”, Pocket

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

"Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse". Book by Stephen Kotkin, p. 58, 2001.

The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.

William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

"Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.