Yogi Berra

Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
by Garson O'Toole
Published 1 Apr 2017

In January 1961 the columnist Earl Wilson indicated that the jest was still being used by comedians such as Ukie Sherin.12 Appearing at the Losers Club in Hollywood, Ukie said, “No wonder nobody ever comes in here—it’s too crowded.” In April 1962 the Cleveland Plain Dealer assigned the joke to Yogi Berra.13 A Yogi Berraism: At Ft. Lauderdale Yogi was listening to his teammates talk about a restaurant in the area. Said Yogi, “Aw, nobody ever goes there. It’s too crowded.” In 1963 the gag was ascribed to Berra again, but a detail of the story was changed—the restaurant was in New York instead of Fort Lauderdale.14 New York Yankee coach Jim Hegan attributes this story to Yogi Berra, the new resident genius of the Bombers. Berra was asked if a certain restaurant in New York was as popular as ever.

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The comedians Rags Ragland and Ukie Sherin employed the quip, as did the writer John McNulty. In addition, there is some evidence that Yogi Berra employed the joke; however, in all documented cases, the jest was already in circulation. Notes: In memoriam: thanks to my brother Stephen, who greatly enjoyed Yogi-isms. 1. Steve Marcus, “Color Yogi a Happy Guy; Now Wearing Astros’ Rainbow Uniform, Berra’s Relaxed, Popular,” Newsday (Long Island, NY), February 24, 1986, sports section, 92. Accessed in ProQuest. 2. William Safire, “Mr. Bonaprop,” On Language, New York Times, February 15, 1987, A8. Accessed in ProQuest. 3. Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said!

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The quotation is then reassigned to the prominent individual. In essence, the remark is reused and captured. This shift in attribution can occur even when the well-known person strives mightily to prevent it by carefully giving proper credit. HOST Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker, and Yogi Berra are quotation superstars. Personas of this type are so vibrant and attractive that they become hosts for quotations they never uttered. A remark formulated by a lesser-known figure is attached to a famous host. The relationship is symbiotic and often enhances the popularity of both the host and the quotation.

Comedy Writing Secrets
by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz
Published 14 Sep 2005

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named William. Include me out. Baseball managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra were credited with malaprops that helped to cemented their immortality in reference books. You wouldn't have won if we had. —Yogi Berra 70 Comedy Writing Secrets If people don't want to come to the ballpark, nobody can stop them. —Casey Stengel Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. —Yogi Berra That restaurant is so popular, nobody goes there anymore. —Yogi Berra Humorists bless politicians who make their jobs easy by fracturing the English language, as did former Vice President Dan Quayle.

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Even if the speech is on a serious topic—politics, the economy, business, or education—a humorous twist in the title will increase interest and attendance. For example, there's nothing more important than sales training speeches, but astute sales managers have learned to avoid making them deadly with titles like these. Yogi Berra Was Right—It Ain't Over 'til It's Over As Alexander Bell Said: "What D'ya Mean My Three Minutes Are Up?" Caterpillars and Other Special People What They Never Dared Tell You About... Writing Humor for Speeches 201 SHOWTIME List topics that you are qualified to speak about, and for each topic, write three to five titles with a humorous twist.

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 1 Jan 2001

For the uncertain future has yet to come, with all variety of future; and him only to whom the divinity has [guaranteed] continued happiness until the end we may call happy.” The modern equivalent has been no less eloquently voiced by the baseball coach Yogi Berra, who seems to have translated Solon’s outburst from the pure Attic Greek into no less pure Brooklyn English with “it ain’t over until it’s over,” or, in a less dignified manner, with “it ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” In addition, aside from his use of the vernacular, the Yogi Berra quote presents an advantage of being true, while the meeting between Croesus and Solon was one of those historical facts that benefited from the imagination of the chroniclers, as it was chronologically impossible for the two men to have been in the same location.

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To such a journalistic and well-sounding (but senseless) argument, Shiller was unable to respond except to explain that the fact that he was wrong in one single market call should not carry undue significance. Shiller, as a scientist, did not claim to be a prophet or one of the entertainers who comment on the markets on the evening news. Yogi Berra would have had a better time with his confident comment on the fat lady not having sung yet. I could not understand what Shiller, untrained to compress his ideas into vapid sound bites, was doing on such a TV show. Clearly, it is foolish to think that an irrational market cannot become even more irrational; Shiller’s views on the rationality of the market are not invalidated by the argument that he was wrong in the past.

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Because we will never know if all the swans are white (Popper borrowed the Kantian idea of the flaws in our mechanisms of perception). The testing mechanism may be faulty. However, the statement that there is a black swan is possible to make. A theory cannot be verified. To paraphrase baseball coach Yogi Berra again, past data has a lot of good in it, but it is the bad side that is bad. It can only be provisionally accepted. A theory that falls outside of these two categories is not a theory. A theory that does not present a set of conditions under which it would be considered wrong would be termed charlatanism—it-would be impossible to reject otherwise.

The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
Published 15 Feb 2013

In a manner similar to that seen in the physical principle that energy is conserved in a closed system, as long as the risks of the investments are col-lectively borne by the investors who provide the funding, changing how the risks are divided among them will not by itself change the overall funding costs. Think about the total returns of the corporation as a pie and the funding mix as a way of cutting the pie into different pieces. Baseball legend Yogi Berra is said to have once asked a waiter to cut his pizza into four slices, saying, “I am not hungry enough for eight today.”19 This is funny because we know that changing the way in which a pizza is cut does not affect its food content. Similarly, the way in which the funding mix divides the risks and returns among debt and equity investors does not by itself affect the value of the firm or its funding costs.

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If, for example, some of the pizza stuck to the knife and was lost every time the pie was cut, an eight-slice pie might in fact have had less food content than a four-slice pie. (If instead the knife had had a special device for adding cheese in the process of cutting, the pie would have had more substance when it was cut into eight pieces, so Yogi Berra would indeed have needed to be hungrier to eat an eight-slice pie than to eat a four-slice pie.) Similarly, if the mix of debt and equity funding affects the value and the funding costs of a corporation, the reasons must be related to how the size of the total “pie” available to investors is affected rather than to how the pie is divided among them.

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As we will see in the next chapter, guarantees and subsidies play a critical role in answering this question. NINE Sweet Subsidies I don’t know how you measure that subsidy.… That’s why they say it’s invaluable. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, part of the credit rating agency Moody’s, April 2009 YOGI BERRA’S SUGGESTION that the content of a pizza might depend on how it is cut is absurd. Yet when banks borrow excessively and economize on equity, the total “pie” available to their investors grows.1 When banks borrow, they benefit from subsidies that they would not enjoy if they relied more on equity.

The Little Book of Hedge Funds
by Anthony Scaramucci
Published 30 Apr 2012

Bethany McLean, “Everybody’s Going Hedge Funds,” Fortune, June 8, 1998, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/06/08/243511/. 2. Steve Fishman, “Get Richest Quickest,” New York Magazine, May 21, 2005. 3. Michael Steinhardt, No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001). Conclusion The Shape of Things to Come The obvious isn’t obvious until it’s obvious. —Should have come from Yogi Berra but it is really from Anthony Scaramucci THE HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY doesn’t climb a wall of worry; it climbs a wall of resentment and scorn. For two decades now, people have sought to demystify the mysterious nature of hedge funds. They have asserted that the business does not add any value, awards extreme risk takers, charges ostentatiously high fees, and renders the market unsettled and unstable.

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Yet, in my humble opinion, the hedge fund industry will continue to grow, albeit in traditional and even unorthodox ways. Legendary managers, like Dave Tepper from Appaloosa, have given back money choosing to run their own and less of other peoples. It is quite possible that this strategy will be a trend for the future. As Yogi Berra did say, “The future isn’t what it used to be.” After all, no one can really predict it with any certainty. Yet, there are a few things that will always be certain . . . many of which I urge you to take away with you: 1. Have Passion: Don’t be in the hedge fund industry just for money; be a part of it because you have a passion for money management. 2.

Getting Organized at Work: 24 Lessons to Set Goals, Establish Priorities, and Managing Your Time
by Kenneth Zeigler
Published 8 Jun 2008

If you are the one assigning the project, make sure you tell your direct report or reports exactly when you expect the project to be completed. This will help them prioritize your request and eliminate confusion. “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” —Yogi Berra 15 ፬ Just be optimistic ፬ ឡThink realistically What’s the number one reason why people don’t complete their projects on time? It’s because they haven’t left any room for anything to go wrong, such as interruptions or unexpected problems. That’s why it’s so important to try to anticipate potential obstacles or changes from the start or at least before they occur.

Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
by Jonah Berger
Published 13 Jun 2016

Ice cream and monkey brains . . . How to be a better negotiator . . . Explaining blockbusters . . . Why copycats get bigger tips . . . Avoiding groupthink 2. A Horse of a Different Color Why successful athletes have older siblings . . . The drive for distinction . . . How ordering with others can ruin your meal . . . Yogi Berra was right . . . Independence with a side of cranberry sauce . . . Why other peoples’ kids look the same but yours are completely unique . . . Why Sports Illustrated sells similarity while Vogue deals in difference 3. Not If They’re Doing It Why companies send celebrities free gifts—from their competitors . . .

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Baseball didn’t used to pay as much, so players had to put down the bat and glove during the off-season and find other ways to support their families. Hall of Famer Casey Stengel drove taxicabs. Pitcher Walter Johnson dug postholes for a telephone company. Shortstop Phil Rizzuto worked at a clothing store. Yogi Berra had a job as a greeter and headwaiter at Ruggeri’s, one of the best-known Italian restaurants in St. Louis. Even after he led the Yankees to win the World Series in the 1950s, Berra would don a tuxedo and greet patrons as they entered the restaurant in the off-season. As salaries increased, players spent more of the off-season on baseball and less on their other pursuits.

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham
Published 2 Jan 1997

About three million shares were accepted when we tendered our holdings to KKR, which acquired RJR, and the returned 1997] THE ESSAYS OF WARREN BUFFETT 71 shares were promptly sold in the market. Our pre-tax profit was a better-than-expected $64 million. Earlier, another familiar face turned up in the RJR bidding contest: Jay Pritzker, who was part of a First Boston group that made a tax-oriented offer. To quote Yogi Berra; "It was déjà vu all over again." During most of the time when we normally would have been purchasers of RJR, our activities in the stock were restricted because of Salomon's participation in a bidding group. Customarily, Charlie and I, though we are directors of Salomon, are walled off from information about its merger and acquisition work.

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The first choice of these managers in making acquisitions may be to use cash or debt. But frequently the CEO's cravings outpace cash and credit resources (certainly mine always have). Frequently, also, these cravings occur when his own stock is selling far below intrinsic business value. This state of affairs produces a moment of truth. At that point, as Yogi Berra has said, "You can observe a lot just by watching." For shareholders then will find which objective the management truly prefers-expansion of domain or maintenance of owners' wealth. The need to choose between these objectives occurs for some simple reasons. Companies often sell in the stock market below their intrinsic business value.

Thinking in Bets
by Annie Duke
Published 6 Feb 2018

People watching One could conceivably argue that maybe self-serving bias isn’t such a big deal because we can learn from other people’s experience. Maybe the solution that has evolved is to compensate for the obstacles in learning from our own experience by watching other people do stuff. There are more than seven billion other people on the planet who do stuff all the time. As Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” Watching is an established learning method. There is an entire industry devoted to collecting other people’s outcomes. When you read the Harvard Business Review or any kind of business or management case study, you’re trying to learn from others. An important element of medical education is watching doctors perform medical procedures or other caregivers do their jobs up close.

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There are several versions of transcripts and videos of the Iowa Republican presidential primary debate on January 28, 2016, such as Team Fix, “7th Republican Debate Transcript, Annotated: Who Said What and What It Meant,” Washington Post, January 28, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/28/7th-republican-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant. People watching: Yogi Berra has proven a fertile source for quotes on such a variety of subjects that it’s reasonable to wonder whether he actually said all the things attributed to him. Because he wrote a book using this astute observation as its title, I feel I’m on safe ground considering this an actual quote, or at least one Berra adopted as his own.

SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
by Jonathan Waldman
Published 7 Jan 2020

He died in 1992 and has been mostly forgotten. Schoolkids read John Steinbeck, not Pietro di Donato. Even the world’s fastest bricklayer, a title bestowed annually, isn’t famous. Can you bring up his name? Other bricklayers merely begat fame. The father of Yankees manager Joe Girardi was a bricklayer. So was the father of Yankees catcher Yogi Berra. Berra’s father, who helped build the arena in St. Louis, did not like that his son got dirty for no better purpose than playing ball. This, of course, was a very Berra-ish opinion, since what was the point of the arena? It was in the house of a master bricklayer that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but does anyone remember the bricklayer’s name?

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Therein lay the cruel technological fate that ever after afflicted bricklayers: As buildings got bigger and taller, roofers, electricians, plumbers, ironworkers, glaziers, carpenters, painters, and ventilation guys all gained work, even while the roofs, wires, pipes, beams, windows, and ducts they wrangled evolved. But masons—whose bricks and mortar remained nearly unchanged—lost out. Masonry went from fundamental—from essential—to just a veneer. By 1895, the amount of brickwork available had shrunk 80 percent. As Yogi Berra later put it: The future wasn’t what it used to be. In response to this sudden change, bricklayers at first held up their chins. Bricklayers in New York tried the Kahn system, hated it, and left it to laborers. They handed work to the American Brotherhood of Cement Workers, adamant that they would not work on buildings where concrete was used in place of masonry.

Money Moments: Simple Steps to Financial Well-Being
by Jason Butler
Published 22 Nov 2017

What I do know is that they did and continue to contribute to my own sense of well-being and in that sense they were worth every penny. BEING ON TRACK TO MEET YOUR FINANCIAL GOALS CREATING AND UPDATING A FINANCIAL PLAN 29 CHARTING YOUR COURSE MAKING DAILY DECISIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF LONG-TERM GOALS ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.’ Yogi Berra, American professional baseball catcher, manager and coach At 8am on 28th November 1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901 took off from Auckland International Airport with 257 people on board, destined for a sightseeing day trip to Antarctica. However, the pilots were unaware that someone at Air New Zealand’s flight control had changed the flight coordinates by two degrees.

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
by Roger Bootle
Published 4 Sep 2019

H. (2015). 39 Chace (2016), pp. 16–17. 40 Kelly (2016). 41 Avent, R. (2016) The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century, New York: St. Martin’s Press, p. 59. 42 Ford, M. (2015) The Rise of the Robots, London: Oneworld, pp. 76–8. Chapter 3 1 Simon, H. (1966) “Automation”, letter in the New York Review of Books, May 26, 1966. 2 This remark, or something very much like it, is widely attributed to a range of people including Yogi Berra (the baseball coach of the New York Yankees), Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, and Sam Goldwyn (the movie mogul). 3 This statement is widely attributed to the great sage but I have found it impossible to pin down chapter and verse. 4 Strictly speaking, there should be an increase in the volume of investment, but if the price of investment goods falls sufficiently then the total value of investment spending may not rise.

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“Capitalism in the Age of Robots: Work, Income, and Wealth in the Twenty-First Century,” lecture given at the School of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, April 20, 2018. 17 Bootle, R. (2009) The Trouble with Markets: Saving Capitalism from Itself, London: Nicholas Brealey. 18 Chace (2016), pp. 217–18. 19 Lowrey, A. (2018) Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives, London: WH Allen. 20 Referred to in Lowrey, A. (2018). 21 Quoted in Van Parijs and Vanderborght (2017), p. 85. 22 Ibid. 23 “The Basics of Basic Income,” www.​johnkay.​com 24 Piketty, T. (2013) Capital in the Twenty-First Century, USA: Harvard University Press. 25 Pinker, S. (2018) Enlightenment Now, London: Allen Lane. Conclusion 1 This remark is widely credited to the American baseball coach and philosopher Yogi Berra, but it or something like it is also attributed to a wide range of other people. 2 Sagan, C. (1980) Cosmos, New York: Random House. Epilogue 1 See Darrach, B., Meet Shaky, the First Electronic Person, Life, November 20, 1970, p. 68. 2 Quoted by Brockman (2015), p. 166. 3 Ford (2015), pp. 229–30. 4 Leonhard (2016), p. 9. 5 This would have a consequence of key interest not so much to economists as to our cousins, the accountants.

Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life
by Jim Benson and Tonianne Demaria Barry
Published 2 Feb 2011

Being able to visualize these tasks shows us the weight of their existential overhead, until finally we have to bite the bullet and process a bunch of them en masse. Use a little creativity to call attention to certain kinds of tasks that may require special attention. Sometimes a little visual reinforcement is the push to action we need. EXPERT: METRICS IN PERSONAL KANBAN You can observe a lot by just watching. ~ Yogi Berra Metrics help us gauge our progress, validate our performance, measure proximity to our goals, and show us where our actions can be improved. Progress, as we’ve seen, is relative to and a matter of context. Metrics should reflect our context, revealing the difference between expected and actual progress.

My Misspent Youth: Essays
by Meghan Daum
Published 2 Mar 2001

To contemplate what it means to be a flight attendant for ten or more years is to consider, after getting past the initially ludicrous notion of serving drinks at 37,000 feet, the effects of the relatively recent, popular tendency to put flying in a category that also includes walking and driving. To say that flight has become pedestrian is something of a Yogi Berra-ism. But to say that air travel has infused itself into the human experience without leaving marks or building up potentially problematic immunities is to view technology in a Pollyanna-like manner that may have gone out of fashion when applied to phenomena like the Internet and surveillance cameras but continues to thrive in the realm of travel.

The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job
by John Tamny
Published 6 May 2018

Investment firms, which make money by attracting the savings of earners, are busy courting Millennials.9 Wait and see: the generation that supposedly doesn’t know how to work will be the richest generation yet. CHAPTER SEVEN My Story “I have never believed in myself more than when I was writing my script. I was never happier with myself.”1 —Dominick Dunne, The Way We Lived Then “How do you like school?” Yogi Berra replied, “Closed.”2 I’m going to pause now to share the story of my own career, not because it’s extraordinary but because it’s in fact pretty ordinary. My story illustrates how economic evolution has expanded the range of work options. When I graduated from college in 1992, there was no Internet to speak of.

The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
by Julian Guthrie
Published 31 Mar 2014

They lived in Daly City, and Dave’s pride and joy was a forty-two-foot Viking, which he had spent years restoring. Matlin found Norbert and said, “Dude, this is the save of a lifetime. We pulled it off! You pulled it off!” The membership agreement alone with Oracle Racing would come close to cutting their debt in half. Norbert shrugged and laughed. “Yogi Berra said, ‘If you come to a fork in the road, take it.’ I took it.” Madeleine watched Norbert. “This is phenomenal,” she said, giving Norbert a kiss. “Who knows what this will lead to?” That night, less than three months after Norbert sent off the first e-mail to Erkelens, it became official: the once moribund Golden Gate Yacht Club was named the official sponsor of Oracle Racing.

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Larry had learned that he loved the striving, the facing of setbacks, and the trying again. It was what his friend Rafael Nadal said about savoring the fight and the winning would come. Everest, it turned out, was never more beautiful than looking up from below. PART IV “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” —Yogi Berra Oracle Team USA’s AC72. Courtesy Oracle Team USA Course map of the 34th America’s Cup. Courtesy America’s Cup Event Authority 30 San Francisco Bay Summer 2012 to Summer 2013 EARLY ON THE MORNING of August 30, 2012, Oracle Team USA’s new black catamaran was wheeled for the first time from the cool dark build shed at Pier 80 in San Francisco into the bright sunshine.

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
by Garr Reynolds
Published 14 Aug 2010

Looking to improve every day is what the spirit of personal kaizen is all about. It’s not about how far you have come or how far you have yet to go. It is only about this moment, about being open to seeing the lessons around you and possessing the capacity and willingness to learn and improve. The Lessons Are All Around You The legendary Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot by just looking around.” Obvious perhaps, yet profound in its simple truth. If you want to improve, learn to see the vast number of lessons all around you. You can learn a lot by really taking the time to see and examine the visual world around you. Design is everywhere.

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Published 25 Feb 2020

Precisely what we need to do is detailed later in the book, but for now, we have to wake up to the fact that we can choose our future and collectively create it. Our collective responsibility is to ensure that a better future is not only possible but probable, and then not only probable but foreseeable. The great baseball player Yogi Berra famously said that predictions are hard to make, especially about the future. In constructing these scenarios, we are aware that making predictions about the world in thirty years’ time is to some degree an imaginative enterprise. However, everything we set out in these scenarios is predicted or expected by the best science.18 Indeed, much of what science has foretold is already happening.

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
by Martin J. Rees
Published 14 Oct 2018

” —MARCIA K. McNUTT, president of the National Academy of Sciences “What if we got one of the smartest people alive to figure the odds on how we might be able to survive our ability to do ourselves in? We have that person in Martin Rees, and his thoughtful answers in this book.” —ALAN ALDA “As Yogi Berra said, ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.’ But in this readable and thought-provoking book, Martin Rees shows the challenges we and our planet face—and why scientists need to engage citizens in the choices that are made.” —SHIRLEY M. MALCOM, director of education and human resources programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science “For anyone who wants to consider the choices we have in our future and the implications of those choices, this is the book to read.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
Published 15 Jan 2013

• Adjectives and adverbs suffering from exhaustion: “sustainable,” “green,” “iconic,” “incredible” and “incredibly.” The last two, like Chernobyl, should be out of service for decades to come. “Ironic” and “ironically” must be used reluctantly and not as labels for things that are merely odd. “Famously” (“As Yogi Berra famously said …”) is just a tired way of excusing a tired reference. • Phrases that once seemed fresh: “low-hanging fruit,” “tipping point,” “herding cats,” “on steroids,” “putting the toothpaste back in the tube,” “at the end of the day,” and “welcome to the world of …” (as a way of announcing the subject of a story after an anecdotal opener)

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
by Tom Demarco
Published 15 Nov 2001

How much progress it makes in that direction is a matter of how inefficient it is. An efficient but not effective organization, on the other hand, is moving in the wrong direction. The more it optimizes, the more progress it makes away from its real goals. Such an organization could say of itself, in Yogi Berra’s words, “We’re lost, but we’re making good time.” Why Achieving Both Is Not Easy Let’s face it, the implicit goal in all organizations is to be both: to make effective choices about what to do and then carry those choices out efficiently. That presumption is so strongly built into organizational cultures everywhere that their executives sometimes can’t see when it isn’t happening.

Yucatan: Cancun & Cozumel
by Bruce Conord and June Conord
Published 31 Aug 2000

Green buses that run up Calle 60 past the Hyatt stop there (30¢). Hungry night owls will find their way to La Habana Restaurant, at the corner of 59 and 62 (see below), or the Yucatecan Restaurante Caleca, at 62 and 61 off the Plaza Mayor, both open 24 hours. Adventures You can observe a lot by watching. ~ Yogi Berra n Sights The Paseo de Montejo is a wide tree-lined boulevard that begins at Calle 47 and runs north through the fine homes and mansions built in the belle époque-style by wealthy families and hacienda owners who made fortunes on the near-monopoly the Yucatán had in henequen. Some of the mansions are still private homes, but many are now used as office space.

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Open 24 hours a day, this immensely popular spot serves up regional dishes and typical Mexican food in a large fan-cooled open dining area at prices that barely lighten the wallet. This is one of the few places whose atmosphere is created by people rather than pictures on the wall. $ Northern Campeche When you come to a fork in the road, take it. ~ sage advice from Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager T here are two routes south from the Yucatán into Campeche – the Fast Route and the Slow Route. As you travel either the slow or fast way, you’ll Campeche La Pigua (Malecón Miguel Aleman No. 197A). A pigua is a small crustacean similar to the shrimp, so you know this famous eatery’s specialties are from the sea.

Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism
by William Baker and Addison Wiggin
Published 2 Nov 2009

Character in the Victorian sense is obsolete; so to pick up the pieces from the financial meltdown we are choosing to embark on an orgy of fiscal stimulus, national debt accumulation, and taxation of the entrepreneurial class, which has been the locomotive of our good fortune. The book closes by venturing a look into the future, which as the great wordsmith of our time, Yogi Berra, opined, “ain’t what it used to be.” This last part begins by reminding us how reluctant concern over creeping socialism is, and how incognizant everyone from the least to the most educated are concerning the moral hazards of operating a fiat currency in conjunction with a state that is hell-bent on fiscal Introduction xxi expansion and providing entitlements.

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Securities & Exchange Commission, February 2008, 1. 32. 2002 Performance and Accountability Report, Securities & Exchange Commission, p. 25, and 2007 Performance and Accountability Report, Securities & Exchange Commission, p. 37 404 NOTES 33. Roel Campos, “Mutual Fund Governance – Response to the Remand,” speech by the commissioner, June 29, 2005. Chapter 17: Elephants in the Room 1. Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book (New York: Workman Publishing, 1998), 118–119. “I just meant that times are different. Not necessarily better or worse. Just different.” 2. Martin De Vlieghere and Paul Vreymans, “Europe’s Ailing Social Model: Facts & Fairy Tales,” The Brussels Journal, March 23, 2006, www.brusselsjournal. com/node/933. 3.

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
by Alan S. Blinder
Published 24 Jan 2013

But, of course, they did nothing to restructure either the financial system or the way the government regulates it. Nor were they supposed to. We turn to that story next. PART IV THE ROAD TO REFORM 10 IT’S BROKE, LET’S FIX IT: THE NEED FOR FINANCIAL REFORM You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. —YOGI BERRA While they were battling to end frighteningly large interest-rate spreads, wildly high bid-ask spreads, the dramatic evaporation of credit, and other indicators of acute financial distress, officials at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the FDIC, and elsewhere found themselves running an overworked financial Emergency Medical Services team, dispatching ambulances to one roadside after another to stop gravely wounded crash victims from bleeding to death.

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The eventual reforms were substantial and thorough. Maybe we shouldn’t call them tinkering at all. Looking back at the harrowing financial collapse and many of the stunning policy responses thereto, and factoring in the public’s negative reactions to both, left reformers with an extremely long and complicated to-do list. As in the Yogi Berra quotation that opens this chapter, they didn’t quite know where to go or how to get there. I will not review the entire potential reform agenda here. That would occupy too many pages and bore you to tears. Besides, not all problems are created equal. Promising to be brief, I offer instead a guide to the highlights, starting with . . .

Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
by Peter Barnes
Published 29 Sep 2006

Folk music, country music, jazz, blues, garage bands—these are the roots of our musical heritage. We must nourish the soil in which these roots grow. This, not copyright extension, is the way to enrich culture. Part 3 MAKING IT HAPPEN Chapter 9 Building the Commons Sector If you don’t know where you’re going, you probably won’t get there. —Yogi Berra y sons play a computer game called Sim City. It’s a brilliant invention that lets you design, grow, and govern your own virtual metropolis. You plunk down streets, sewers, power systems, and subways. You zone for commerce, industry, and residences. You drop in schools, hospitals, and fire stations.

The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce
Published 20 Apr 2017

Though I try to avoid generalising about gender, it is fair to say that men are less adaptable to disruptions in their work routines than women, and more liable to vent their anger politically. To anyone who doubts that, I have a flying car to sell you. Meanwhile, remind yourselves of the impact manufacturing job losses have had on Western politics. Way more than half of Trump’s voters were male. The same applies to the Brexit electorate. As the baseball legend Yogi Berra allegedly said, it is tough to make predictions – especially about the future. The economist Robert Gordon clearly wasn’t listening. His book The Rise and Fall of American Growth makes a startling forecast that did not go down well in Silicon Valley. The future is not what it used to be, he says.

The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration
by Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees
Published 18 Apr 2022

If we contemplate travel to the nearest stars and their planetary systems, we must leap upward by another large factor: their distances from us are about 40,000 times greater than Jupiter’s. It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (a remark often attributed to the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, or, alternatively, to Yogi Berra).4 If we have learned anything from history, it is that we should continue to expect the unexpected. Some future events will occur with near certainty: the sun will rise tomorrow, and it will undergo a total eclipse on August 2, 2027.5 We can have a high degree of confidence in the likelihood of others because of our past experience.

Retire Before Mom and Dad
by Rob Berger
Published 10 Aug 2019

” * * * 1 According to Northwestern Mutual, the average amount of personal debt (excluding a mortgage) was $38,000 in 2018. https://news.northwesternmutual.com/planning-and-progress-2018 2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2018/11/27/why-we-buy-more-than-we-need/ Chapter 2 The Game Plan “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra You’ve taken the red pill. Congratulations! Welcome to a community of people I call the Freedom Fighters. Who are the Freedom Fighters? We are a growing group of people, young and old, who believe that the best thing money can buy is Financial Freedom. In the following pages, I’ll be your guide as you begin your journey.

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
by John Allen Paulos
Published 1 Jan 2003

Brian Arthur, an economist at the Santa Fe Institute and Stanford University, has long used an essentially identical scenario to describe the predicament of bar patrons deciding whether or not to go to a popular bar, the experience being pleasant only if the bar is not thronged. An equilibrium naturally develops whereby the bar rarely becomes too full. (This almost seems like a belated scientific justification for Yogi Berra’s quip about Toots Shor’s restaurant in New York: “Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.”) Arthur proposed the model to clarify the behavior of market investors who, like my students and the bar patrons, must anticipate others’ anticipations of them (and so on). Whether one buys or sells, crosses the box or doesn’t cross, goes to the bar or doesn’t go, depends upon one’s beliefs about others’ possible actions and beliefs.

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs
by Andy Kessler
Published 1 Feb 2011

Not as strong, but still in control. I don’t see them going away. Why? Because in a Long Tail universe, the cost to crawl up the tail to the rat’s ass is more expensive than the production. Which means only the people with the money can make the investment, which brings you back to the moguls.” It’s the Yogi Berra problem—no one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded. You gotta spend as much on promotion as you do on production to attract folks to your pipe, virtual or otherwise. Mark Cuban might be right. Moguls will still roam the earth even after the asteroid hits. But they won’t be like the moguls of today.

The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
by William J. Bernstein
Published 12 Oct 2000

Identify the era’s conventional wisdom and then ignore it. Now look at the individual plots in Figure 4-6. Picking the worst of the stock and bond lines in each era (S&P and bond in the earlier period, EAFE and bond in the later period) would have produced poor returns, and the best stock and bond line excellent returns. The trouble, as Yogi Berra once said, is that it’s very difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future. If you take your uncle’s advice and split the difference, you find that you do reasonably well in both eras. In both cases the return of the 50/50 line is much closer to the best-performing asset line than the worst-performing asset line.

Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
by John H. Johnson
Published 27 Apr 2016

It’s hard for people to reconcile that we’re living in an unpredictable world. A lot of people can’t get their head around that, and want to think life is going to be normal every day. But we can’t mitigate every possible risk. We have to make the best judgments we can.” In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “It is tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” 9 It’s a Jungle Out There Putting It All Together Imagine going to the zoo and seeing a lion. In the next cage over, there’s an elephant. Another exhibit holds the giraffes. And so on. Each animal is in its own contained area, with a nice little sign that tells you more about it.

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias
Published 14 Sep 2020

Because the point of this book is the proposition that we ought to take decisive steps to avert falling behind China, it’s natural for readers to want me to project exactly when China will overtake us under current policies. Once upon a time, I thought this would be a straightforward thing to look up with Google. But it turns out that if you try it, you get a range of different answers. In part that’s because, as either Niels Bohr or Yogi Berra or both once quipped, predictions are hard, especially about the future. But in part it’s because the predictors are to an extent talking about different things. That’s why one Bloomberg headline from 2018 argued that China had already become the world’s biggest economy and urged Americans to “get used to it”* while one three months later argued that “extrapolating when the world’s second-biggest economy will overtake the first is a tricky business riddled with caveats” and it would perhaps never happen.* I don’t particularly want to take a side in this international economic statistics nerd fight, but it’s also a bad idea to just throw up our hands and say we have no way of knowing.

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
by Gregory Brandon Salsbury
Published 15 Mar 2010

A desire to leave something to your family or to a charity can be compromised by tax considerations as well. A major key to an enjoyable retirement is consistent income that pays for the things that are important to you. First step: Develop an income strategy. Develop an Income Strategy As Yogi Berra said, “When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” And as you rethink the complexity of retirement, you may be asking yourself, “I’ve come to the fork in the road. I’ve taken it. Where do I go from here?” Before you take a step in any direction, develop an income strategy. The questionnaire in Figure 8.2 identifies key areas that are specific to your needs and can help you anticipate and calculate retirement expenses.

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 27 Nov 2012

A week with declining earnings for a taxi driver or a prostitute provides information concerning the environment and intimates the need to find a new part of town where clients hang around; a month or so without earnings drives them to revise their skills. Further, for a self-employed person, a small (nonterminal) mistake is information, valuable information, one that directs him in his adaptive approach; for someone employed like John, a mistake is something that goes into his permanent record, filed in the personnel department. Yogi Berra once said: “We made the wrong mistake”—and for John all mistakes are wrong mistakes. Nature loves small errors (without which genetic variations are impossible), humans don’t—hence when you rely on human judgment you are at the mercy of a mental bias that disfavors antifragility. So, alas, we humans are afraid of the second type of variability and naively fragilize systems—or prevent their antifragility—by protecting them.

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It is a way—the only way—to domesticate uncertainty, to work rationally without understanding the future, while reliance on narratives is the exact opposite: one is domesticated by uncertainty, and ironically set back. You cannot look at the future by naive projection of the past. This brings us to the difference between doing and thinking. The point is hard to understand from the vantage point of intellectuals. As Yogi Berra said, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.” So far we have seen arguments that intellect is associated with fragility and instills methods that conflict with tinkering. So far we saw the option as the expression of antifragility. We separated knowledge into two categories, the formal and the Fat Tonyish, heavily grounded in the antifragility of trial and error and risk taking with less downside, barbell-style—a de-intellectualized form of risk taking (or, rather, intellectual in its own way).

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 1994

—Dan Quayle And who knows what unrepeatable amalgam of genes creates the linguistic genius? If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them. You can observe a lot just by watching. In baseball, you don’t know nothing. Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. It ain’t over till it’s over. It gets late early this time of year. —Yogi Berra And NUH is the letter I use to spell Nutches Who live in small caves, known as Nitches, for hutches. These Nutches have troubles, the biggest of which is The fact that there are many more Nutches than Nitches. Each Nutch in a Nitch knows that some other Nutch Would like to move into his Nitch very much.

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Universal human nature and individual uniqueness: Tooby & Cosmides, 1990a. Separated at birth: Holden, 1987; Lykken et al., 1992. Behavior genetics: Bouchard et al., 1990; Lykken et al., 1992; Plomin, 1990. Bushspeak: The Editors of The New Republic, 1992. Quaylespeak: Goldsman, 1992. Linguistic geniuses: Yogi Berra, from Safire, 1991; Lederer, 1987. Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), from On Beyond Zebra, 1955. Nabokov, from Lolita, 1958. King, from the march on Washington, 1963. Shakespeare, from Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. 11. The Big Bang Elephants: Williams, 1989; Carrington, 1958. Darwinian explanations of the language instinct: Pinker & Bloom, 1990; Pinker, in press; Hurford, 1989, 1991; Newmeyer, 1991; Brandon & Hornstein, 1986; Corballis, 1991.

Personal Investing: The Missing Manual
by Bonnie Biafore , Amy E. Buttell and Carol Fabbri
Published 24 May 2010

Lots of folks would rather be certain of having a small amount of money than worry about whether a large nest egg might falter right when they need it. You might think that putting money into a guaranteed money market account means you won’t lose money. Think again. If your money doesn’t keep up with inflation, you lose buying power, which is the same as losing money. 20 Chapter 1 2 Set Your Investment Goals A ccording to Yogi Berra, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” Planning for long-term goals seems overwhelming to a lot of people, tedious to many others. Whatever the reason, plenty of folks forego planning and hope for the best—or claim they’ll make do with whatever they end up with.

Emotional design: why we love (or hate) everyday things
by Donald A. Norman
Published 10 May 2005

Exploitative commercial objects such as Mona Lisa scarves and abominable plaster reproductions of sculptural masterpieces are described as kitsch, as are works that claim artistic value but are weak, cheap, or sentimental." "Sentimental" means, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, "resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism." "Emotion rather than reason"—well, yes, that is precisely the point. Yogi Berra put it this way: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Or, translating this to design, "Nobody likes kitsch, it's too popular." Yup. If too many people like something, there must be something wrong with it. But isn't that very popularity telling us something? We should stop to consider just why it is popular.

Bitcoin for the Befuddled
by Conrad Barski
Published 13 Nov 2014

Bitcoin has drawn society’s attention to the potential promises and perils of digital currencies in a largely digital world. Even if Bitcoin disappears, its creation has already influenced future legislation and policies toward digital currencies. The Future Potential of Bitcoin A quote that has been attributed at various times to several people, including Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra, is the maxim “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Nonetheless, in a book about Bitcoin, we would be remiss if we didn’t explore its potential in the future. First, we’ll look at the existential risks for Bitcoin—situations that could cause bitcoins to become worthless.

Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
by Kevin Mellyn
Published 18 Jun 2012

The investment bankers thought they had the machinery and models to turn low-credit-score loans into Triple A securities. The crisis proved that the models and structures were deeply flawed in many cases. But the credit score itself suffers from the same basic limitation as all statistical efforts to predict the future based on history. Sometimes, to borrow from Yogi Berra, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” For the entire period when credit scores were being developed into objective predictive tools to measure the risk of default, the United States was enjoying what I’ve been calling the Great Moderation. Between 1982 and 2008 there had been a steady rise in asset prices, especially for homes, and job creation was robust enough to keep unemployment reasonably low.

Bomb Scare
by Joseph Cirincione
Published 24 Dec 2011

“Nuclear weapons proliferation,” he says, “occurred in the past, and can occur in the future, for more than one reason: different historical cases are best explained by different causal models.”102 Theoretical assumptions and conclusions both have enormous implications for nonproliferation policy. Each of the proliferation models leads us to draw different conclusions about how to best fight the spread of nuclear weapons. The result? Great difficulty in developing and sustaining a consistent and effective nonproliferation policy. Or as Yogi Berra said, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” One way to resolve some of the differences in the theoretical models is to get the analysts to all start from the same page. That is, to forge a consensus around an objective assessment of the nuclear threats.

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas Stanley and William Danko
Published 15 Nov 2010

Given her age, fifty-one, and her income, $220,000, Sharon should, according to the wealth equation (expected net worth = one-tenth age × income), be worth approximately $1,122,000. Why is Sharon’s level of accumulated wealth far below the norm? Because her realized, or taxable, income is too high. Last year she paid $69,440 in federal tax on her $220,000 income. This is the equivalent of 18.8 percent of her total wealth. Yogi Berra might say, “Sharon, you can’t be wealthy. Your income is too high.” TABLE 2-3 CONTRASTS AMONG AMERICAN TAXPAYERS We believe that the average person in Sharon’s income/age category pays the equivalent of only 6.2 percent of his wealth in annual federal tax, or $69,440 divided by $1,122,000.

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
by John Doerr
Published 23 Apr 2018

They’ve kept me and the rest of the company on time and on track when it mattered the most. And I wanted to make sure people heard that. Larry Page and John Doerr, 2014. PART ONE OKRs in Action 1 Google, Meet OKRs If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there. —Yogi Berra On a fall day in 1999, in the heart of Silicon Valley, I arrived at a two-story, L-shaped structure off the 101 freeway. It was young Google’s headquarters, and I’d come with a gift. The company had leased the building two months earlier, outgrowing a space above an ice-cream parlor in downtown Palo Alto.

How Democracy Ends
by David Runciman
Published 9 May 2018

But the most interesting part is the final section (‘Utopia’), where Nozick argues that a minimal state leaves open all the important questions for individuals to decide for themselves. What kind of society do you want to live in? Who do you want to share it with? These are not matters to be settled by politics. These are things politics should leave up to us. Nozick makes his point with a list: Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Merton, Yogi Berra, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Wolfson, Thoreau, Casey Stengel, The Lubbavitcher Rebbe, Picasso, Moses, Einstein, Hugh Hefner, Socrates, Henry Ford, Lenny Bruce, Baba Ram Das, Gandhi, Sir Edmund Hillary, Raymond Lubitz, Buddha, Frank Sinatra, Columbus, Freud, Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, Baron Rothschild, Ted Williams, Thomas Edison, H.

The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution Is Making the World a Better Place
by Felix Marquardt
Published 7 Jul 2021

After a distinguished career in the army (he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia), Colonel William Economos opened a flower shop in Marble Hill, a minuscule area so far uptown in New York (225th Street) that it appears to be part of the Bronx on the map, although it’s technically Manhattan. I vividly recall the water fights my brother Max and I had with the flower sprays in that shop and going to our first Yankees game in the summer of 1983 – I remember distinctly Papou pointing at a smiling old man with protruding ears on the team bench: ‘You see that guy? That’s Yogi Berra!’ – the team’s legendary catcher, manager and coach. Having become seriously rebellious in France and excluded from several schools, it occurred to my by then seriously distraught though not yet completely exasperated parents that it might be the French system that was the problem, and that I might actually flourish in an elite American boarding school, à la Dead Poets Society.

The Hacker's Diet
by John Walker

Taken together, these techniques constitute an eat watch: they monitor calories in and calories burned (actually their balance, which is all that matters), and they tell us how much to eat, and when. The long-sought tool of weight loss and permanent control is now ours. In the next chapter we'll turn to the practical steps to put it to work. Losing Weight Ninety percent of this game is half mental. —Yogi Berra At last, we're ready to turn to the task of losing weight. We've studied the mechanics of the body to learn how it gains and loses weight. We've modeled the body as a feedback system to understand why we have trouble controlling our weight while others don't. We've found a way, starting from simple daily weight measurements, to determine the true course of the body's weight and the fragile balance between the calories that go in to the rubber bag and what gets burned.

The Intelligent Investor (Collins Business Essentials)
by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig
Published 1 Jan 1949

We think the investor must be prepared for difficult times ahead—perhaps in the form of a fairly quick replay of the the 1969–1970 decline, or perhaps in the form of another bull-market fling, to be followed by a more catastrophic collapse.3 What Course to Follow Turn back to what we said in the last edition, reproduced on p. 75. This is our view at the same price level—say 900—for the DJIA in early 1972 as it was in late 1964. Commentary on Chapter 3 You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, ’cause you might not get there. —Yogi Berra Bull-Market Baloney In this chapter, Graham shows how prophetic he can be. He looks two years ahead, foreseeing the “catastrophic” bear market of 1973–1974, in which U.S. stocks lost 37% of their value.1 He also looks more than two decades into the future, eviscerating the logic of market gurus and best-selling books that were not even on the horizon in his lifetime.

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If, however, business is faltering or the stock is underperforming its rivals, then the managers and directors are misusing the cash by refusing to pay a dividend. Companies that repeatedly split their shares—and hype those splits in breathless press releases—treat their investors like dolts. Like Yogi Berra, who wanted his pizza cut into four slices because “I don’t think I can eat eight,” the shareholders who love stock splits miss the point. Two shares of a stock at $50 are not worth more than one share at $100. Managers who use splits to promote their stock are aiding and abetting the worst instincts of the investing public, and the intelligent investor will think twice before turning any money over to such condescending manipulators.10 Companies should buy back their shares when they are cheap—not when they are at or near record highs.

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
by Blake J. Harris
Published 12 May 2014

People like Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, who was now senior consultant for a small game developer called PlayNet; Howard Phillips, Nintendo’s former Game Master, who was currently in between jobs; and Michael Katz, who could have probably helped Phillips, as he had become one of the videogame industry’s first headhunters (with a particular penchant for moving employees from Sega to Sony). “I’d like to take a moment,” Kalinske began vibrantly, officially kicking off this groundbreaking event, “right at the beginning of my remarks, to convey one of the more important pieces of news you’re likely to hear while at E3. Tomorrow, May 12, 1995, will be Yogi Berra’s birthday. His seventieth. So we all need to prepare ourselves for a heavier-than-usual onslaught of Yogiisms from radio and TV commentators. If I may, I’d like to kick off the birthday observance by repeating my own personal favorite of his: ‘When I come to a fork in the road, I take it.’ “Now that’s not only vintage Berra,” Kalinske continued, “but it’s also good for kicking off speeches.

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Kalinske would say that it took money to make money, that the budget had risen in proportion with success, and what a small price it was to pay for global name recognition. And Peter Main would counter that style couldn’t compensate for lack of substance, that the budget had risen as product quality had diminished, and that while Sega might now have a global name, it should think long and hard about what its reputation was. “Lastly, I wanted to come back to Yogi Berra,” Kalinske said, relishing his last moments onstage. Would he be back next year? Five years from now? Ten? So much of that would depend on what he had to say next. “I think when Yogi said ‘fork in the road,’ he was talking about opportunity. When he sees opportunity, he takes it. And so we do. We’re taking all the opportunities we can to make this business soar.

Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto
by Mark Helprin
Published 19 Apr 2009

But one need not be a Nazi brontosaurus to question the trajectories of one’s time if indeed one’s time produces people who think their grandchildren are their ancestors. I return to this example out of continuing astonishment, but it is accurately representative. At a rest stop in Maryland not long ago, I heard a high school girl ask her father where they were “now” (perhaps she was related to Yogi Berra). When told “Maryland,” she asked, “Is that in New Jersey?” Nor need one be senescent to note that the middle ground has been continually pressed to the extremes, so that on one edge of what is published we have, from Edna Moisture, professor of gender studies at California State University at Uponga: To clarify the fascistic class burst of intra-pseudo-transgenderism, one must accept that the other is the object of the actor, and the actor is an apodeictic imagination of the object.

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
Published 1 Jan 2000

At a conference of economists one should begin by telling the one about a few billion here and a few billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money, or the one about how if you laid a thousand economists end to end they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion, or the one about how economists look for keys under the street lamp because that is where the light is. At least one speaker per panel should refer to Yogi Berra, and everybody in the audience must chuckle to prove how unpretentious they are. Then the speaker will have to judge how dull she can afford to be. Very eminent panelists are expected to be dull, since their words carry great weight. High government officials, university presidents, and corporate leaders are expected to speak in the Upper Institutional mode—a vocabulary so dense and vague of content as to cause people’s mouths to hang open and their eyes to water.

Curation Nation
by Rosenbaum, Steven
Published 27 Jan 2011

“The real issue that remains is access to an audience. Because that’s hard. Access to technology has become trivially easy for most people in the industrialized world, and increasingly easy for people in the emerging economies around the world.” In trying to humanize the problem of too much democratization of speech, Blau channels the wordplay of Yogi Berra: “There’d be some wonderful thing that he would say—‘The problem when you can talk to anybody is that you can’t talk to anybody.’” There’s no doubt Blau is right. Speech is easy; being heard is hard and getting harder, because computers can’t distinguish between data and ideas. Or between human intellect and aggregated text and links.

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
by Paul Bloom

If someone were to wonder why you should save the drowning child—the sort of question only a philosopher would ask, I suppose—one good answer is that if you let her die, things would be worse. She would have lost out on all the good things that come from being alive, and there would be terrible suffering on the part of others. By wading in and pulling her out, you avert all those awful consequences. Often the consequences of our actions are uncertain. As Yogi Berra once put it: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” A young man has serious problems with drugs and gets arrested; his wealthy parents bail him out. Or they don’t; they leave him in prison overnight so that he learns a lesson. A woman decides to have an abortion; a student cheats on an exam that he needs to pass to keep his scholarship; a man leaves Wall Street to join the seminary.

Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World
by David Kerrigan
Published 18 Jun 2017

But as the technology begins to prove itself in terms of safety, reliability, savings and convenience, opinion and the debate could quickly shift from, “I don’t want to share the road with robots” to “I don’t want to share the road with people driving their own cars.” The Disruption Dilemma “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Yogi Berra Driverless cars are effectively the digitization of a very visible part of the physical world. They have emerged as the new battlefront for some of the largest companies in the world, primarily from outside the traditional auto industry. Why? The technology required is beyond most traditional car companies, at least without significant expenditure to quickly gain expertise.

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by Tyler Cowen
Published 11 Sep 2013

At least for a while, they will be the only people left who will have a clear notion of what is going on. 12 A New Social Contract? What will become of America as a whole in twenty to forty years? What will our politics look like in the new world of work? One is reminded of the old saw attributed to Yogi Berra: “Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” Still, it can help us make sense of the present to lay down some possible trends about where things are headed. A lot of people will have serious objections to some of these trends. So be it. Let’s first understand where the trends might be coming from.

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up
by Annabelle Gurwitch
Published 31 Aug 2010

And it’s also true that if I put as much time and energy into my writing career as I continue to put into Ezra’s baseball, by this point I could have written at least three War and Peace–sized novels, a dozen screenplays, a half dozen plays, two books of short stories, and a collection of poetry, not to mention having a regular magazine column, my own comedy show on the Web, and still have time left over to resculpt my body at a gym and invent my own language. But it’s been totally worth it because nothing is better than seeing your son smash a hit into the outfield, round third, and score or make a great catch. And last year, after he made the last out and his travel team won a big tournament, he leaped into my arms like Yogi Berra did to Don Larsen after he pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series. I know, no matter what happens after Ezra’s travel team, the Titans, goes to play in Cooperstown in 2010 for the Field of Dreams Tournament, he’ll always remember that day he jumped in my arms to celebrate the victory. And if he does ever forget, I’ll be sure to remind him.

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 20 Feb 2018

Nobody embodies the notion of symmetry better than Isocrates, who lived more than a century and made significant contributions when he was in his nineties. He even managed a rare dynamic version of the Golden Rule: “Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.” We had to wait for the great baseball coach Yogi Berra to get another such dynamic rule for symmetric relations: “I go to other people’s funerals so they come to mine.” More effective, of course, is the reverse direction, to treat one’s children the way one wished to be treated by one’s parents.fn2 The very idea behind the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is to establish a silver rule–style symmetry: you can practice your freedom of religion so long as you allow me to practice mine; you have the right to contradict me so long as I have the right to contradict you.

The Estrogen Fix: The Breakthrough Guide to Being Healthy, Energized, and Hormonally Balanced
by Mache Seibel
Published 18 Sep 2017

Also know that even though your estrogen levels are dropping during perimenopause, you can still become pregnant. Unless you want to get pregnant, be sure to use a reliable method of birth control until you have gone 12 months without a period. Many women choose to use a diaphragm, condoms, or an IUD in perimenopause. Every year or so one of my patients comes in with a “surprise” pregnancy. As Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Barbara had her last period at the age of 54. She finally decided to seek help because she suffered from hot flashes and night sweats that affected her quality of life. “My body was like the engine in a luxury sports car that goes from zero to 60 in a matter of seconds.

Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
by Max Brooks , John Amble , M. L. Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates
Published 14 May 2018

-led coalition’s performance in Afghanistan triggered significant concerns as to whether the United States was repeating Russian missteps in that country, while ethnic tensions have begun to rise once again in Kosovo. And despite the fact that the collapse of the USSR marked for many a decisive “end of history,” post-Soviet Russia has had its own back-to-the-future moment in an effort to position itself for competition with the United States in Europe and beyond. As Yogi Berra put it, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Charles Hill reminds us that great fiction and literature provides a creative, methodologically unbound way to contemplate our circumstances, including statecraft.1 Star Wars is no exception. Many, of course, maintain that the Star Wars movies are merely a lengthy space opera with the occasional camp line thrown in for good measure.

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
by Erik Vance
Published 14 Sep 2016

Take it one step further: Forget about cheating altogether. Looking at two clean athletes, how can we be sure that the difference between a 4-minute mile and a 3-minute-and-59-second mile isn’t just a slightly better internal pharmacy? It kind of changes the meaning of the phrase “level playing field.” Baseball savant Yogi Berra once said, “Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” At the time, people just made fun of his math skills. But with our growing understanding of the power of the brain to enhance everything from cycling to tennis to weight lifting, it’s starting to look as if Yogi was correct.

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen
Published 1 Mar 2018

That something we need to trust, Samson is saying, is a concrete law, guaranteed by the twenty-eight members of a community of five hundred million people, designed around the protection of data. That law, which turns the surveillance economy on its head, is doing Renate Samson’s job for her. It might even make Big Brother Watch redundant. To borrow some words from the former New York Yankees shortstop Yogi Berra, listening to the second entrepreneur, a self-funded former telecom executive, is “like déjà vu all over again.” It feels as if we are back in 1995 and everything is once again possible. He even begins with the same promise of being the “first” kind of data company to create a product designed for “people.”

Why We Run: A Natural History
by Bernd Heinrich
Published 6 May 2002

I ask myself: Is there anyone else in America who might be an even greater lunatic than I, who might push himself even harder? A small voice says, Probably. So I push again, a little harder. Am I crazy? Perhaps. But I must judge both my and others’ ability accurately, maintain absolute integrity to my vision, and be guided strictly by cause and effect, by empirical reality. As Yogi Berra said about baseball, “It’s ninetypercent mental. The other half is physical.” After about 4 hours, the sun is blazing hot and the wind has picked up. Jack still holds out the welcoming squeeze bottle full of cranberry juice every few miles. I grab, squirt, swallow, drop the bottle, and am glad to have both hands swinging free again . . .

The Authoritarians
by Robert Altemeyer
Published 2 Jan 2007

I call 20 to 30 percent a “sturdy” relationship, and 30 to 40 percent gets the designation “strong” in my book. Above 40% equals “very strong,” and you could call above 50% “almost unheard of” in the behavioral sciences. This may seem quite under-achieving to you, but it’s tough figuring people out and, as Yogi Berra might put it, everybody already knows all the things that everybody already knows. Social scientists are slaving away out on the frontiers of knowledge hoping to find big connections that nobody (not even your mother) ever realized before, and that’s practically impossible. Ask your mom. In terms of precise correlation coefficients, a correlation less than .316 is weak, .316 to .417 is moderate, .418 to .548 is sturdy, .549 to .632 is strong, .633 to .707 is very strong, and over .707 is almost unheard of.

The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life
by Pam Grout
Published 14 May 2007

Accommodations range from $49 a night for a room to $5,000 per week for a house. HOW TO GET IN TOUCH Chautauqua Institution, P.O. Box 28, Chautauqua, NY 14722, 800-836-2787 or 716-357-6250 (box office), www.ciweb.org. HORIZON & CO. take a radical sabbatical IN THE UNITED STATES & WORLDWIDE When you come to a fork in the road, take it. —Yogi Berra 59 | Rather than supplying information—the purpose of most intellectual sojourns—a “radical sabbatical” is designed to seek information. From you. You’ll be asked the kinds of questions that tend to get pushed to the back burner in our busy lives: “What do you stand for?” “Why are you here?”

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen; Mark Ridley
Published 1 Jan 2006

CONTROVERSY The skeptic's chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a fountainhead of skepticism Michael Shermer OVER the weekend of 12 to 14 August 2001, I participated in an event entitled ‘Humanity 3000’, whose mission it was to bring together ‘prominent thinkers from around the world in a multidisciplinary framework to ponder issues that are most likely to have a significant impact on the long-term future of humanity’. Sponsored by the Foundation for the Future—a non-profit think tank in Seattle founded by aerospace engineer and benefactor Walter P. Kistler—long-term is defined as a millennium. We were tasked with the job of prognosticating what the world will be like in the year 3000. Yeah, sure. As Yogi Berra said, ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future’. If such a workshop were held in 1950 would anyone have anticipated the World Wide Web? If we cannot prognosticate fifty years in the future, what chance do we have of saying anything significant about a date twenty times more distant?

Stephen Fry in America
by Stephen Fry
Published 1 Jan 2008

Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Burroughs, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Maya Angelou, Frank and Jesse James, Calamity Jane, Dale Carnegie, Max Factor, Charles Lindbergh, Edwin Hubble, Joseph Pulitzer, Adolphus ‘Budweiser’ Busch, James ‘McDonnell Douglas’ McDonnell, Bill ‘Jet’ Lear, J.C. Penney, Kenneth ‘Enron’ Lay, Walter Cronkite, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Barker, Yogi Berra, Payne Stewart, Scott Joplin, Charlie Parker, Basil Poledouris, Chuck Berry, Grace Bumbry, Burt Bacharach, Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Josephine Baker, Wallace Beery, Robert Cummings, Jean Harlow, Walt Disney, Betty Grable. John Huston, Ginger Rogers, Jane Wyman, William Powell, Fritz Freleng, Vincent Price, Robert Altman, Dick van Dyke, Dennis Weaver, John Milius, Kathleen Turner, Geraldine Page, John Goodman, Don Johnson, Scott Bakula, Chris Cooper, Linda Blair, Brad Pitt

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
by Gabriel Wyner
Published 4 Aug 2014

You may enjoy reading French magazines or watching Russian TV shows. You may fall in love with Chinese vocabulary, or you may fall in love with a new Italian friend. This is your language. Take it wherever you want to go. SETTING GOALS: YOUR CUSTOM VOCABULARY If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else. —Yogi Berra How many words should you learn? Which words should you learn? The answer depends upon you: what do you want to do with your language? Back in Chapter 4, we discussed using frequency lists to help streamline your vocabulary acquisition. I gave you a list of 625 basic words to learn and showed you how to learn them quickly.

Women and Autoimmune Disease
by Robert G. Lahita
Published 1 Jan 2004

Today, many of these drugs are so good that they allow people with autoimmune disease to live quite normal lives. In fact, a great many reach remission, although even in remission, drugs must often be continued to ensure that the disease remains in check. Medicine, as I have mentioned, is half art, half science, and, with a nod to Yogi Berra, half luck. This certainly holds true when it comes to treating autoimmune diseases, although treatment always requires an expert with experience to calculate the dosage of a drug or drugs, the duration of therapy, and simply to know what to use when, for what, on whom. This is one of those areas where it is critical to have a well-trained and proficient physician specialist.

Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
by Ian Sample
Published 1 Jan 2010

Veltman gave his lecture, “The LHC and the Higgs Boson,” on the second day. Video and slides available from the CERN website. 4 See “The Unhiggs,” by David Stancato and John Terning, Journal of High Energy Physics, no. 11 (2009): 101. 5 The phrase and variations on it are commonly attributed to both Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra. Bohr’s version appears in, among other works, Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy, by John Barrow, Oxford University Press, 2000. 6 For more on the idea of manipulating the Higgs field, see an online seminar by physicist Kim Griest at the University of California, Davis.

Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough
by Sendhil Mullainathan
Published 3 Sep 2014

In a way, this had to be good—the restaurant was popular. But it can also be a bad thing. Long lines can make you proud, but they bring in no money. You need people inside and eating, not outside and waiting. Customers can get disgruntled and not come back. You don’t want it said of you, “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded,” as Yogi Berra put it. To understand what might be done—raise prices? expand?—Kimes conducted a thorough statistical analysis, which gave her a snapshot more precise than the staff’s impressions: What was the income per table? Which tables were most occupied? What was the turnover? And so on. What she found surprised her.

The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
by Henry Schlesinger
Published 16 Mar 2010

Even more intriguing is the concept the engineers at Nokia are currently working on, which is a way to harvest ambient electromagnetic radiation emitted from things like Wi-Fi transmitters and cell phone towers that surround us every day, filling the air with energy to recharge batteries or run small devices. EPILOGUE Bring on the Future “Prediction is very hard, especially when it’s about the future.” —Yogi Berra Predictions far into the future are always dangerous. This is painfully evidenced by the legions of baby boomers who have grown to middle age and beyond still waiting for the arrival of flying cars and personal jet packs promised in the magazines of their youth. In the more distant future are ultracapacitors or double-layer capacitors or electric double-layer capacitors.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky
Published 28 Feb 2008

Or rather, he tried to create a bulletin board, but the first such service he selected simply couldn’t cope with the crush of excited users all trying to log in at the same time. Seeing this, he selected a second bulletin board service, but that too crashed under the sudden shock of demand, as did the third. (These kinds of failures, sometimes called “success crises,” bring to mind Yogi Berra’s famous observation about a New York restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”) He finally found a service that could accommodate the thousands of people following the Sidekick saga, and those readers settled in, discussing every aspect of the events, from general speculation about Sasha’s moral compass to a forum inviting members of the military to talk about Luis, the MP, and his involvement in the events.

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
by Samuel I. Schwartz
Published 17 Aug 2015

The car steered itself, but humans controlled throttle and brake, out of a perfectly reasonable concern for safety. j As of this writing, another technological behemoth, Apple, is rumored to be developing an automobile that may be self-driving. k It’s been attributed to everyone from the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr to Yogi Berra, and is almost certainly the only time those two giants of the twentieth century have been confused with one another. EPILOGUE Flatbush and Atlantic IN JANUARY OF 2006 I GOT A CALL FROM THE OFFICE OF ONE OF NEW York City’s most prominent and ambitious developers, Forest City Ratner, itself a subsidiary of an even larger Cleveland-based real-estate behemoth.

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by Nathalia Holt
Published 4 Apr 2016

When Harry mentioned the World Series game to Barbara’s obstetrician, he confessed that he too was desperate to see it, and they searched until they found a TV. It was Game Four, the Pittsburgh Pirates versus the New York Yankees. Absorbed by the game, the pair kept their eyes on Yankee Stadium, where the game remained scoreless until the bottom of the fourth. Mickey Mantle struck out and Yogi Berra ground out before their teammate Bill Skowron hit a home run. The game suddenly had become a nail-biter when the doctor was called back into the delivery room. Harry snapped back to reality. He was about to become a father. As the Pirates narrowly beat the Yankees, 3–2, Barbara cuddled her baby girl, who had weighed in at nine pounds six ounces.

Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
by Mikael Colville-Andersen
Published 28 Mar 2018

A much-needed bike rack placed outside the front entrance of the Clarion Hotel & Congress Trondheim. The OhBoy Bicycle House development in Malmö, Sweden. Car-free living in a modern city. © Hauschild + Siegel Architects CHAPTER 11 DESIRE LINES AND UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR You can observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra Cyclist on a desire line trajectory across an intersection in Copenhagen. Yep. You’ve heard it before. You might even have said it or at least thought it. Those damned cyclists. As bicycles return to our cities, many urban dwellers are trying to figure out cyclists, those urban autists. By and large, the primary focus is on behavior, but with an overwhelmingly negative focus that clouds all the positive aspects of having a cycling population in a city.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Published 11 Feb 2014

In addition to the Neanderthal Museum, a strikingly modern building with walls of bottle green glass, there are cafés selling Neanderthal-brand beer, gardens planted with the sorts of shrubs that flourished during the ice ages, and hiking trails leading to the site of the find, though the bones, the cave, and even the cliffs are all gone. (The limestone was quarried and carted away as building blocks.) Directly inside the museum’s entrance stands a model of an elderly Neanderthal smiling benignantly and leaning on a stick. He resembles an unkempt Yogi Berra. Next to him is one of the museum’s most popular attractions: a booth called the Morphing Station. For three euros, visitors to the station can get a profile shot of themselves and, facing that, a second profile that’s been doctored. In the doctored shot, the chin recedes, the forehead slopes, and the back of the head bulges out.

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
by John de Graaf , David Wann , Thomas H Naylor and David Horsey
Published 1 Jan 2001

I act not out of obligation or idealism, but because I live in a straw house and I smell smoke.”10 CHAPTER 26 Back To Work Markets flatter our solitary egos but leave our yearnings for community unsatisfied. They advance individualistic, not social, goals, and they encourage us to speak the language of “I want” not the language of “we need.” —BENJAMIN BARBER, A Place for Us If you don’t go to somebody’s funeral, they won’t come to yours. —YOGI BERRA Is there any better feeling than being back in the world after an extended illness? Good-bye, daytime TV, and Hello, energy! The challenge is to channel the energy productively. Gandhi said, “there’s more to life than increasing its speed.” We might add that there’s more to life than increasing its greed.

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux
Published 16 May 2012

United States–Economic policy–2009 2. United States–Economic conditions–2009 3. Middle class–United States–Economic conditions. I. Title. HC106.84.F38 2012 330.973–dc23 2012013719 To my wife, Marge, helpmate and soul mate Part I The Pursuit of Folly The future ain't what it used to be. —Yogi Berra 1 The Politics of Hope Historians who look back to our time will surely conclude that our problem was not that we didn’t know where we were headed, it was that we didn’t act on what we knew. Even before the financial crash of 2008–2009 and the Great Recession that followed, there was ample warning.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
by Robert Lane Greene
Published 8 Mar 2011

Funny how I didn’t think any of this was peculiar at the time, when it was behaviour with “Proto Stickler” written all over it. What’s going on here? “Tautology” isn’t a grammar error; it’s a logical one, with either unnecessary reinforcement in a phrase (“free gift,” also called a pleonasm) or a statement written so that it can’t be falsified, for example by definition or circular logic. Think of Yogi Berra’s “You can observe a lot by watching.” This isn’t nitpicking (although one could be forgiven for picking the nits off of the self-appointed world-beating nitpicker). It shows a major problem in many people’s thinking about language errors: category error. “Grammar,” to the language specialist, is how words and sentences are built from meaningful components.

Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
by Sandeep Jauhar
Published 18 Aug 2014

He went to see the patient and immediately noticed that the whites of her eyes had black discoloration, a sign of a potentially serious metabolic derangement. No doctor had commented on it during the presentation. “I did a … hello!” the cardiologist recalled. “How could they have missed it? All through the chart was written ‘pupils equally round and reactive to light.’ It was obvious no one had examined her. I subscribe to the Yogi Berra School of physical diagnosis. You can learn a lot by looking.” Tom smiled, slowly chewing his scrambled eggs. “I majored in music in college,” he said. “Knowing how to separate sounds and time them correctly has helped me immensely in listening to the heart. It’d be a shame if we lost those diagnostic skills.

Beyond: Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey
Published 12 Apr 2015

Bostrom 2008, in Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity, ed. by B. Gordijn and R. Chadwick. New York: Springer, pp. 107–37. 12: Journey to the Stars 1. This particular quote has engendered a lot of speculation and misattribution. For example, it cannot be reliably attributed to baseball manager and purveyor of malapropisms Yogi Berra. It seems to originate in nineteenth-century Denmark and was used but not coined by physicist Niels Bohr. A detailed discussion is online at http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/. 2. See http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pogue-all-time-worst-tech-predictions/; and http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/12-worst-tech-predictions-of-all-time/d/d-id/1096169. 3.

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy
by Daniel Gross
Published 7 May 2012

When all the forces are arrayed against an asset or an idea and are invested in its falling, that’s usually a pretty good sign it’s about to rise. Many of the loudest proclamations of decline come from those who thought the period from 2001 to 2008 was a rip-roaring good time, the Bush Boom. The consensus is frequently wrong, especially the consensus of those who predict the near future. As Yogi Berra put it, “It’s tough to make predictions. Especially about the future.” Looking at their models in 2007, forecasters told us housing prices couldn’t fall, the economy wouldn’t lapse into recession, and all those subprime borrowers were good credit risks. The fraternity of seers who, in March 2009, saw the stock market rising back to 12,000 within two years was about as small as the exclusive club that saw it plummeting from 14,700 to 6,600 in the space of six months.

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am
by Robert Gandt
Published 1 Mar 1995

Archer was a real Skygod, which is to say, one in full possession of his dignity. He doffed his cap. “Why, certainly, madam,” he said, and took the lady’s bags inside. He cheerfully accepted the tip. “We cannot absorb revenue loss without taking severe steps to lower our costs commensurate with the reduced revenue.” It was a classic Plaskettism, worthy of Yogi Berra. What the chairman meant was that he was pink-slipping another four thousand employees. Back in August when Iraq ventured into Kuwait and traffic slumped, Pan Am had eliminated two thousand jobs. Now, with this latest announcement, a full 20 percent of Pan Am’s work force had become casualties of the Gulf War.

How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely
by Andrew Craig
Published 6 Sep 2015

At the very least, I urge you to read both chapters. Doing so will mean you are best placed to decide which of these approaches is best for you personally and they should get you excited about the vast opportunities that lie ahead. 9. MAPPING YOUR ROUTE “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra Working up a budget is perhaps one of the most important steps you will take on your road to financial success. It is probably fair to say that many people do this in some shape or form, but it is probably not controversial to suggest there are three things that relatively few people do: Make a sufficiently detailed budget – throw in everything but the kitchen sink … Budget for your dream life – plan for the life that you actually want rather than the one you have today.

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
by David Christian
Published 21 May 2018

Or will we keep depending on flows of energy and resources so huge that they will eventually shake apart the fantastically complex societies we have built in the past two hundred years? Part IV * * * THE FUTURE Chapter 12 Where Is It All Going? It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. —YOGI BERRA (ATTRIBUTED) Man has too long forgotten that the Earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. —CHARLES PERKINS Marsh, MAN AND NATURE Future Games In the introduction we met the fantastic motley cavalcade of all things, with its stars and serpents, its quarks and cell phones, all marching to the distant thunder of supernovas under the unblinking but weary gaze of entropy.

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini
Published 17 Oct 2022

I find that a bleak prognosis evokes “All Along the Watchtower,” the Bob Dylan anthem that became a Jimi Hendrix megahit: “There must be some way outta here/Said the joker to the thief. There’s too much confusion/I can’t get no relief.” Maybe you have young children or grandchildren—or you are optimistic by nature. You want to leave a better world to future generations. So do I. Moreover, I readily admit that no one can predict the future with certainty. The Yankees manager Yogi Berra famously quipped that “it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” We might catch some unforeseen breaks. Resourceful humans solve big problems, as my own ancestors did when violent religious prejudice drove them away from their homes in Central Asia to the Middle East, then Europe, and finally the United States.

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
by Eric Siegel
Published 19 Feb 2013

Therefore, we need to collect two sets of data: If the treated customers buy more than the control customers, we know the campaign successfully persuades. This proves some individuals were influenced, but, as usual, we don’t know which. Predicting the Wrong Thing If you come to a fork in the road, take it. —Yogi Berra To target the marketing campaigns, Michael and his team at U.S. Bank were employing the industry standard: response models, which predict who will buy if contacted. That’s not the same thing as predicting who will buy because they were contacted; it does not predict influence. Compared to a control set, Michael showed the campaigns were successful, turning a profit.

The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Published 1 Jan 2004

As a result, if everyone thinks the bar will be crowded on Friday night, then few people will go. The bar, therefore, will be empty, and anyone who goes will have a good time. On the other hand, if everyone thinks the bar won’t be crowded, everyone will go. Then the bar will be packed, and no one will have a good time. (This problem was captured perfectly, of course, by Yogi Berra, when he said of Toots Shor’s nightclub: “No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”) The trick, of course, is striking the right balance, so that every week enough—but not too many—people go. There is, of course, an easy solution to this problem: just invent an all-powerful central planner—a kind of über-doorman—who tells people when they can go to the bar.

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
by William R. Easterly
Published 1 Aug 2002

A s Isaac Newton said, “If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”14 Today’s innovators don’t take into account that their innovation will permanently increase the productivity of the economy; they get the returns to their innovation only until the next ”new, new thing” comes along. This means once again that the private return to innovation is less than the social return. The extreme case is that no innovation happens because people are afraid subsequent innovation will happen. As Yogi Berra once said about a restaurant, “Nobody goes there; it’s too crowded.” For the reason of nonappropriability and obsolescence, the rate of technological innovation will tend to be too slow in a market economy. These disincentives to innovation can beso strong that thereis no innovation and thus no growth in a free market economy.

The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)
by Terrence J. Sejnowski
Published 27 Sep 2018

Part I provides the motivation for deep learning and the background needed to understand its origins; part II explains learning algorithms in several different types of neural network architectures; and part III explores the impact that deep learning is having on our lives and what impact it may have in years to come. But, as the New York Yankees’ philosopher Yogi Berra once said: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Text boxes in eight of the chapters to follow provide technical background to the story; timelines at the beginning of the three parts keep track of events that bear on that story and extend over sixty years. I Intelligence Reimagined Timeline 1956—The Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Summer Research Project gave birth to the field of AI and motivated a generation of scientists to explore the potential for information technology to match the capabilities of humans. 1962—Frank Rosenblatt published Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms, which introduced a learning algorithm for neural network models with a single layer of variable weights—the precursor of today’s learning algorithms for deep neural network models. 1962—David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel published “Receptive Fields, Binocular Interaction and Functional Architecture in the Cat’s Visual Cortex,” which reported for the first time the response properties of single neurons recorded with a microelectrode.

Capital Ideas Evolving
by Peter L. Bernstein
Published 3 May 2007

.* Yet people who are not so smart frequently become rich. If they are lucky enough to avoid being wiped out immediately, they can survive for a long time and create all kinds of mispricings that scare away more sober investors. Keynes observes that the market could stay at crazy levels longer than most people could even imagine.†  Yogi Berra is reported to have said that forecasting is very difficult, especially when it comes to the future. Most of life is about making decisions whose outcome is hidden from us. Faced with what looks like an impossibly complex process, why would we not tend to look for shortcuts—or heuristics—to reach our decision more easily?

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets
by David J. Leinweber
Published 31 Dec 2008

Sue Watts and her colleagues found that when they tried repeating the experiment, the whisper numbers had become useless, with wider variation and no value over the consensus estimates. This is yet another example of the wisdom of a collective depending on choosing the members of the collective carefully so none of them have an incentive to mislead the rest. As noted earnings analyst Yogi Berra might explain, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Monitoring Web Activity: No GUI, No Glory Chapters 9 and 10 describe some of the many examples of how and why investors and traders would want to collect, aggregate, and evaluate many flavors of content from the Web—news, pre-news, SEC filings, and messages are a small sample, and the molecular search filters to decide what is interesting are some of the simpler varieties.

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter
Published 7 Apr 2015

Notwithstanding this implied criticism, history will judge the federal government’s health IT initiatives in the 2004–2015 era favorably, as a time when its actions kick-started the digital transformation of the healthcare system, a transformation that—if we can ever reach the state I’ve described here—will have made the healthcare system better, safer, and cheaper. 39 They are listed at the end of the book. 40 Today, a version of this model is known as the Patient-Centered Medical Home, but no one has yet sorted out all the details, particularly the data integration part. 41 Another FYI: I am on the advisory board of a start-up named Amino.com, one of many trying to build such a Webbased tool. Chapter 28 The Nontechnological Side of Making Health IT Work Ninety percent of this game is half mental. —Yogi Berra While the future world I’ve just depicted may seem fantastical, there is nothing in it that is science fiction—all the technologies I discussed are available today or will be available very soon (which goes a long way toward explaining why today’s health IT is so irritating). I’ve already described some of the business and policy changes that will be needed to achieve this vision.

Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
by Ken Adelman
Published 5 May 2014

Analysts spend loads of time trying to read the minds of people who haven’t made up their minds. That’s why the intelligence community is more comfortable describing what happened or what is happening than what will happen—which is what policy makers most need to know. All forecasting is dicey, as Yogi Berra put it, especially about the future. While bad, this intelligence failure was not debilitating. Despite Don Regan’s dictates, Shultz bulked up the arms team going to Reykjavik. So he had the expertise on hand to pivot when needed. Of some consolation is how the KGB’s performance was even worse than the CIA’s.

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by Ozan Varol
Published 13 Apr 2020

Ambitious missions were announced in John F. Kennedy fashion by one administration only to be canceled by the next. Funding waxed and waned in response to the prevailing political winds. As a result, NASA lacked a clear vision. In 2012, shortly before his death, Neil Armstrong reportedly invoked the baseball legend Yogi Berra to describe the agency’s predicament: “If you don’t know where you are going, you might not get there.”2 We didn’t know where we would go after NASA retired the space shuttle in 2011—our only means of reaching the International Space Station—with no replacement in place. After the remaining space shuttles rolled off the launch pads and into museums, American astronauts had to ride shotgun to the station on Russian rockets.

Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
by Russell Napier
Published 18 Jan 2016

Avoiding bears preserves wealth, but buying cheap in a bear market, given the positive real long-term returns from equities, is even more profitable. This field guide to the financial bear focuses on the very lucrative periods in history when equity prices had been pushed well below fair value and rebound was imminent. As US baseball legend Yogi Berra once said, ‘You can observe a lot just by watching’. By watching the financial bears, we can observe the point at which a number of potential factors come together to signal the market can only get better. Those factors include low valuations, improved earnings, improving liquidity, falling bond yields, and changes in how the market is perceived by those who play it.

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by Henry Grabar
Published 8 May 2023

“Lack of adequate parking facilities in central districts has contributed to a great extent in bringing these conditions about.” Planners continued to cling to the idea that the downtown revival was just a parking lot away. And they planned accordingly. By focusing on how hard it was to park, they made policy of Yogi Berra’s aphorism “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.” * * * The story of how so many cities sought to imitate the suburbs and regretted it is exemplified by the career of the man called upon to rescue the American city in its time of parking need: Victor Gruen, the inventor of the mall.

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Published 5 Sep 2016

Or was that too easy an idea, an idea from my side of the empathy wall? I’d taken measure of the talk and silences of public life in the heartland of the right. I’d seen what my Tea Party friends were putting up with. But the empathy wall was higher than I’d imagined. I could see what they couldn’t see, but not—as Yogi Berra might say—what I couldn’t see. I still felt blind to what they saw and honored. I needed to do something else, to enter the social terrain that surrounded and influenced them. Included in that were industry, state government, the church, and the press. How did these basic institutions influence their feelings about life?

The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
by Susan Pinker
Published 30 Sep 2013

Called kin selection by evolutionary psychologists (and nepotism by everyone else), keeping close tabs on members of the community—even taking risks and making personal sacrifices on their behalf—became a normal feature of life in these small towns. Helping people was a way of helping your own genes survive, though no one is explicitly aware of that. Residents simply expect that when they need help they’ll get it, and at some point they’ll return the favor. Yogi Berra summed up the concept nicely: “Always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise they won’t come to yours.” That’s how reciprocal altruism can be fostered by kin selection in such small, isolated groups of people. Given how tight the Blue Zone Sardinians are, how committed to watching out for one another, this longevity-promoting social cohesion may have been selected for over many centuries of geographic and genetic isolation.7 In the here and now, the act of helping other people releases feel-good neuropeptides and endorphins—that’s the positive side.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan
Published 18 Apr 2010

The emphasis is on the need for humility, for policy diversity, for selective and modest reforms, and for experimentation.”39 Last, much of the world is poor because the rich countries have not tried very hard to make it otherwise. I realize that pointing out the failure of development aid and then arguing for more of it is like Yogi Berra criticizing a restaurant for having bad food and small portions. Still, things become better when there is an overwhelming political will to make them better. That is bigger than economics. Epilogue Life in 2050: Seven Questions Economics can help us to understand and improve an imperfect world.

The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel
Published 3 Oct 2016

They have owners that do not cherish the unpredictability of innovation competition, and substantial investment in building such businesses. Western economies, as we will discuss further in Chapter 9, should worry about an innovation famine rather than an innovation feast. 9 THE FUTURE AND HOW TO PREVENT IT The future ain’t what it used to be. Yogi Berra, baseball legend A society does not ever die “from natural causes” but always dies from suicide or murder – and nearly always from the former. Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History1 Westerners should not worry about an innovation blitz. Their concern should rather be that innovation and technological change no longer power their economies as much as they should and could, and that economic stagnation fuels economic inequality and political populism.

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
by Michael Shermer
Published 8 Apr 2020

* * * Over the weekend of August 12–14, 2001, I participated in an event titled “Humanity 3000,” whose mission it was to bring together “prominent thinkers from around the world in a multidisciplinary framework to ponder issues that are most likely to have a significant impact on the long-term future of humanity.” Sponsored by the Foundation for the Future – a nonprofit think tank in Seattle founded by aerospace engineer and benefactor Walter P. Kistler – long-term is defined as a millennium. We were tasked with the job of prognosticating what the world will be like in the year 3000. Yeah, sure. As Yogi Berra said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” If such a workshop were held in 1950 would anyone have anticipated the World Wide Web? If we cannot prognosticate fifty years in the future, what chance do we have of saying anything significant about a date twenty times more distant?

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt
Published 15 Mar 2010

For more advanced undergraduate students, Arild Vatn provides an introduction to institutional economics as applied to environmental economic policy in his 2005 book, Institutions and the Environment. 168 8  |  The marginal productivity theory of income distribution – or you’re worth what you can get ‘Are we so committed to the framework of marginal produc­ tivity and its implicit claim … that the distribution of income is legit­ imated by market forces? Are we prepared to rule the issues of power, monopoly and financial control off the table when we discuss the way incomes are apportioned …?’ James K. Galbraith (1998: 37) ‘In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.’ Yogi Berra We’ve emphasized in previous chapters how standard textbooks downplay one of the main economic goals – equity – in favour of the other – efficiency. This emphasis shows up again in the placement of chapters explaining the distribution of income. They are invariably towards the end of the book, and, because of time constraints, the typical introductory economics course may not cover them.

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
by Josh Kaufman
Published 2 Feb 2011

Don’t continue to pour concrete into a bottomless pit—if it’s not worth the additional investment, walk away. You never have to earn back money in the same way you lost it. If the reward isn’t worth the investment required to obtain it or the risk, don’t invest. SHARE THIS CONCEPT: http://book.personalmba.com/sunk-cost/ 7 THE HUMAN MIND Ninety percent of this game is half mental. —YOGI BERRA, FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER AND MALAPROPIST Now that we’ve covered the essentials of how businesses work, we’re going to shift gears into understanding how people work. Businesses are built by people for people. As we discussed in Value Creation and Value Delivery, if people didn’t have needs and wants, businesses wouldn’t exist.

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
by Satyajit Das
Published 15 Nov 2006

Risk ‘savages’ appeared; in keeping with the defence theme, there were ‘body counts’. To lend a more scientific perspective, the speaker threw in some technical jargon – ‘risk regimes’, ‘the colonization of uncertainty’ and ‘risk management as anesthesia’. References to an odd collection of famous names – Mark Twain, Yogi Berra, Monty Python – abounded. The speaker confessed that his daily life was ‘technical’, ‘absurdly mathematical’ and ‘full of partial differential equations’. He confided to his audience that on weekends he was likely to read a book on ‘prime numbers’ or a ‘novel’. Balzac, Jane Austen and Italo Calvino were mentioned.

Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions
by Brett Stern
Published 14 Oct 2012

I had never taken something that already existed and thought, “I’m going to make a better one.” I never did that. Stern: What do you think are the skill sets needed for an inventor to be successful? Michelson: Before we get to a skill set, let’s get to personality or state of mind, or a way of thinking. You can’t be rigid, where you’re afraid of failing. Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot by just watching.” You have to be able to see. All the same things that Darwin observed were there for everybody else to see, but he saw them with a new eye of understanding. You have to give yourself permission to deconstruct things. I would say that’s probably the number-one thing: you have to be able to take things apart.

Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores
by Greg Palast
Published 14 Nov 2011

Terry Hazen of the University of California’s prestigious Lawrence Livermore Laboratory announced in The Washington Post:We’ve gone out to the sites, and we don’t find any oil. They didn’t? No oil plumes in the water? How do you miss a floating oil turd bigger than a quarter horse? If the tar ponies are riding up the beach, they had to be swimming in the water column. As the biologist Yogi Berra once said, “It’s amazing what you can see when you’re looking.” Two months before we got there, Zach Roberts (our man working under the name “Ronald” Roberts, fish expert) said this gunk was all over the place. So how had these biologists missed this? Badpenny and I discovered the problem: In February 2007, there had been an oil spill in Dr.

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox
Published 29 May 2009

The first says it doesn’t matter how a company raises its money, and the second says it doesn’t matter whether it gives the money to shareholders. “The great thing about M&M,” University of Chicago professor James Lorie would jokingly tell his students in the 1970s, “is that nothing really matters.”19 Miller himself explained the papers’ significance like this: “The pizza delivery man comes to Yogi Berra after the game and says, Yogi, how do you want this pizza cut, into quarters or eighths? Yogi says, cut it into eight pieces. I’m feeling hungry tonight.”20 The M&M propositions were thus either breathtakingly bold or trivially obvious—or both. Their greatest significance was that they made it acceptable to wield deductive logic in the study of finance.

Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet
Published 13 Feb 2018

Later he took electrocardiograms of wounded soldiers and watched the flickering needles describe the consequences of punctured lungs, shattered bones, buried bullets: a thousand more reasons not to go to Vietnam. But it was the Intrepid Four who pointed the way to Sweden. When Bill saw them on the cover of a magazine, he began plotting a journey north. (“Like Yogi Berra says,” reflected Bill, “when you come to a fork in the road…”) Another medic in his unit had the same impulse and acted first, selling his car and hitchhiking to Denmark. Bill intended to join him, but didn’t like what he found when he arrived. “He was something in the Copenhagen club scene,” he recalled.

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt
by Sinan Aral
Published 14 Sep 2020

The idea was simple: a crowd with diverse, independent opinions of equal voice will outperform most if not all individual experts at a variety of tasks when their opinions are aggregated to harness their collective wisdom. It’s an elegant theory that is, in large part, correct when you do the math of collective aggregation. But as Yogi Berra so eloquently opined, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” The only problem with Surowiecki’s thesis is that his book was written in 2004, the same year Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. In the decade that followed, the Hype Machine systematically undercut the three fundamental assumptions of the wisdom of crowds.

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Published 3 Oct 2022

With the help of a former McKinsey colleague—the son-in-law of the Cardinals’ owner—Luhnow got a job as the team’s vice president for scouting and player development, a surprisingly important position for a newcomer with no formal background in baseball. Luhnow quickly signaled his commitment to analytics by hiring Sig Mejdal, a former blackjack dealer who had also worked as an engineer for Lockheed Martin and NASA. He changed careers after reading Moneyball. Mejdal’s description of modern baseball did not evoke memories of Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra. “You are going to need database, you are going to need persons with database skills, you are going to need servers, you are going to need analysts to analyze that data, and then you are going to need analysts or others with skills to present it to the decision makers.” Luhnow’s arrival upset baseball traditionalists.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
by Gabor Mate and Peter A. Levine
Published 5 Jan 2010

Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own. I am separate from myself, wondering why my life doesn’t work.4 Partners, friends and family, whether despondently or optimistically trying to pressure the addict to change, would do well to remember the immortal words of Yogi Berra: “If the people don’t want to come to the ball game, there’s nothing you can do to stop them.” CHAPTER 34 There Is Nothing Lost: Addiction and the Spiritual Quest All problems are psychological, but all solutions are spiritual. THOMAS HORA, M.D. A barrier for many people when it comes to Twelve-Step work around addiction is Step Two, evoking a higher power: [We] came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin
Published 1 Jan 1998

No one said a transparent society would come without drawbacks, or challenges to the good judgment of twenty-first-century citizens. The classic Mayan civilization (now long extinct) had a superbly pampered class of brilliant astrological futurists. BRUTE STERLING I never make predictions, especially about the future. YOGI BERRA A Predictions Registry “The secrets of flight will not be mastered within our lifetime ... not within a thousand years.” This prognostication, singularly famous for its irony, was reportedly uttered in 1901 by none other than Wilbur Wright. We can presume he said it during a foul mood, after some temporary setback.

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier
Published 1 Jan 2000

THE POINT OF THREAT MODELING When designing a security system, it is vital to do this kind of threat modeling and risk assessment. Too many system designers think of security design as a cookbook thing: mix in particular countermeasures— encryption and firewalls are good examples—and magically you’re secure. This never happens. Yogi Berra said:“You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ’cause you might not get there.” Often security systems don’t protect against the threats that matter. Encrypting e-mail may protect the contents from eavesdropping, but does nothing to hide the fact that two people are communicating.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
Published 17 May 2010

Clarke and Isaac Asimov, more visionary than most, were steeped in the transport-obsessed 1950s rather than the communication-obsessed 2000s. So in describing the world of 2100, I am bound to sound like somebody stuck in the world of the early twenty-first century, and make laughable errors of extrapolation. ‘It’s tough to make predictions,’ joked somebody, perhaps Yogi Berra: ‘especially about the future.’ Technologies I cannot even conceive will be commonplace and habits I never knew human beings needed will be routine. Machines may have become sufficiently intelligent to design themselves, in which case the rate of economic growth may by then have changed as much as it did at the start of the industrial revolution – so that the world economy will be doubling in months or even weeks, and accelerating towards a technological ‘singularity’ where the rate of change is almost infinite.

The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders
by Connie Bruck
Published 1 Jun 1989

And at the Wickes deal’s closing dinner, held in the Garden Room at the plush Hotel Bel Air, one Drexel employee presented to Milken, Joseph and others framed copies of three prospectus covers, mounted side by side—a Wall Street triptych. The first was Salomon’s red herring; the second was the prospectus with Drexel and Salomon listed as co-managers; the third was Drexel’s. The inscription that ran across the bottom of the mounting read, “As Yogi Berra said, ‘It isn’t over ’til it’s over.’ ” 14 Sovereign Privileges IN FEBRUARY 1986, when Milken appeared before the money managers in Boston, speaking about the difference between perception and reality and ticking off his triumphs, he had begun by noting that he had seen pickets as he entered the building.

Anarchy State and Utopia
by Robert Nozick
Published 15 Mar 1974

For each person, so far as objective criteria of goodness can tell (insofar as these exist), there is a wide range of very different kinds of life that tie as best; no other is objectively better for him than any one in this range, and no one within the range is objectively better than any other.5 And there is not one community which objectively is the best for the living of each selection set from the family of sets of not objectively inferior lives. For our purposes at this point either of Ib2 or II will serve. Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Merton, Yogi Berra, Allen Ginsburg, Harry Wolfson, Thoreau, Casey Stengel, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Picasso, Moses, Einstein, Hugh Heffner, Socrates, Henry Ford, Lenny Bruce, Baba Ram Dass, Gandhi, Sir Edmund Hillary, Raymond Lubitz, Buddha, Frank Sinatra, Columbus, Freud, Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, Baron Rothschild, Ted Williams, Thomas Edison, H.

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby
Published 22 Dec 2009

As their potential for economic growth has burgeoned in the last two decades, their voices have grown louder in international meetings. The World Trade Organization and Its Critics China and India refused to accept the 2008 round of trade negotiations conducted at Doha, capital city of Qatar, under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization. The breakdown in the Doha round looked a lot like Yogi Berra’s “déjà vu all over again.” The sight of nations jockeying for special privileges to the neglect of shared concerns brought back scenes from the 1920s. The depths of the Great Depression and the horrors of World War II had convinced Western nations to give up protective tariffs and accept restraints imposed by the Bretton Woods agreement.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D.
Published 7 Sep 2015

CHAPTER 3 LOOKING INTO THE BRAIN: THE NEUROSCIENCE REVOLUTION If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot, with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, and surrounded by darkness, more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere. —Ivan Pavlov You observe a lot by watching. —Yogi Berra In the early 1990s novel brain-imaging techniques opened up undreamed-of capacities to gain a sophisticated understanding about the way the brain processes information. Gigantic multimillion-dollar machines based on advanced physics and computer technology rapidly made neuroscience into one of the most popular areas for research.

Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Sixth Edition
by Kindleberger, Charles P. and Robert Z., Aliber
Published 9 Aug 2011

The rates of return to non-Japanese investors on their purchases of shares in Japanese firms were high since these investors benefited from the combination of the increase in the price of the stocks and the increase in the foreign exchange value of the Japanese yen. The bubble in Japan reached its crescendo at the end of 1989. Real estate prices seemed so high that the quip by the much quoted baseball star Yogi Berra that ‘It’s so expensive that no one can afford to live there’ seemed applicable. Banks developed one-hundred-year, three-generation mortgages. The incoming governor of the Bank of Japan was concerned that such high prices for homes would erode social harmony. A new central bank regulation instructed Japanese banks to limit the rate of growth of their real estate loans so that it would be no greater than the rate of growth of their total loans.

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated
by Gautam Baid
Published 1 Jun 2020

Many CEOs fail in allocating capital because of their incentive structure, which is aligned to what they can do in the short term rather than what they should do for the long term. This is why Munger says, “Perhaps the most important rule in management is to get the incentives right.”5 In theory, stock options should align the interests of managers with shareholders. But as Yogi Berra said, “In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is.” Two aspects of stock options make them an ineffective way to incentivize management. First, they are a capital cost. For a manager with a fixed price option, retained earnings are “free-of-cost” capital.

Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay
Published 2 Jan 2009

The most common reasons, however, had to do with the high value of the products in question, coping with volatile consumer demand, and an outright need for speed in production. The last one is also why LA has begun a slow descent into flyover country as far as cargo is concerned. Asian airlines in particular have learned to skip its tangle of runways and freeways in favor of direct flights to Dallas to drop off their laptops. It’s Yogi Berra logic: nobody lands there anymore; it’s too crowded. Orange County: The Battle of El Toro “Airports come in two sizes,” Rem Koolhaas wrote, “too big and too small.” But John Wayne Airport, nestled snugly in Orange County, was just right. Big enough for locals to enjoy the connections it offered but too small to really annoy anyone, it was a perfect fit for the O.C.

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published 22 Nov 2016

It is August 2015, and I am sitting in a conference room with the then St. Louis Park mayor Jeff Jacobs; the city manager, Tom Harmening; and the city’s chief information officer, Clint Pires. Jacobs had been mayor since 1999 and on the city council since 1991. He is an unusual mix of Andy Griffith, Machiavelli, and Yogi Berra. That is, he has learned a ton about politics and human behavior through the window of a small-town city council, and he is capable of condensing his wisdom into memorable one-liners that Yogi and Machiavelli would have admired. The local newspaper, the Sun Sailor, collected a few on December 9, 2015, to commemorate his retirement, including: On the city council, “Our job is to have seven people come together to disagree, then do it again the next week.”

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals
by David Aronson
Published 1 Nov 2006

Box 2’s results are less variable than those of box 1. This is evidenced by box 2’s narrower clustering about its central value. Given the lower degree of sampling variation in box 2, it would be fair to say that we know the value of F-G 2 with greater certainty than we know F-G. What the Box Experiments Taught Us about Statistics Yogi Berra, former manager of the New York Yankees, said you can observe a lot just by looking. If he were a statistician, he might have said that you can learn a lot just by sampling. Even though a sample is only a portion of a larger universe (population), it can teach us a lot about that pop- Box 2 R E L A T I V E F R E Q U E N C Y 0.3 Box 1 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 f–g FIGURE 4.11 Relative frequency distributions compared. 0.8 0.9 1 186 METHODOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, STATISTICAL FOUNDATIONS ulation.

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo
Published 3 Apr 2017

At that point, we might begin to start breaking the vicious cycle with more effective interventions, including technological innovations to reduce stress, support parenting, manage consumer finances, and help individuals make better decisions. The first step toward eliminating poverty is to acknowledge that it doesn’t have to exist. A NEW NARRATIVE The future is always uncertain. The great American philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” But it was the American economist Frank Knight who taught us how to separate risk from uncertainty. Risk is measurable and quantifiable; uncertainty is the unknown unknowns. One of the great achievements of modern financial economics has been to push back against uncertainty, to convert the unknown unknowns into known and familiar quantities, to tame uncertainty and harness risk for our own purposes.

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das
Published 14 Oct 2011

The Travelers/Citicorp juggernaut would use its huge balance sheet to make large loans to companies and leverage this to sell the clients a variety of other advisory services or financial products. The institution’s unparalleled reach would offer a one-stop-shop for individuals—payments, credit cards, mortgages, savings, and investment products. But as the baseball player Yogi Berra noted: “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is.” Synergies and cross-selling benefits failed to emerge. Competition limited CitiGroup’s gains. Other commercial banks built or bought investment banks to compete. i-Banks, the new buzzword for investment banks, shamelessly derivative of Apple’s ‘i’ products—particularly Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch (collectively dubbed MGM)—changed their business models to match the universal banks.

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2
by Thomas A. Limoncelli , Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan
Published 27 Aug 2014

Describe how the ICS process could be applied to IT. 10. List the key concepts that go into an Incident Action Plan. 11. How would you attempt to convince your management of the necessity of conducting fire-drill exercises in your environment? Chapter 16. Monitoring Fundamentals You can observe a lot by just watching. —Yogi Berra Monitoring is the primary way we gain visibility into the systems we run. It is the process of observing information about the state of things for use in both short-term and long-term decision making. The operational goal of monitoring is to detect the precursors of outages so they can be fixed before they become actual outages, to collect information that aids decision making in the future, and to detect actual outages.

Buffett
by Roger Lowenstein
Published 24 Jul 2013

Tycoons there had been, and also men of letters, but here, in one package, was a J. P. Morgan writing with the irreverence of Will Rogers. Buffett leavened the essays with cracker-barrel witticisms and nimble quotations (belying the notion that he was some sort of hick) from cultural icons such as Pascal, Keynes, Mae West, and Yogi Berra. But these were mere truffles. What set the essays apart was his knack for unbuttoning a complex subject and clearly explaining it. Through the early eighties one can discern three recurring themes. One was Buffett’s dread fear of inflation, inherited from his father. He seemed to have taken to heart Lenin’s dictum that the way to ruin capitalism was to ruin its money, and he doubted that politicians had the willpower to slow the printing press.

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bondgraham
Published 10 Jan 2023

The nearly eight years had been a dark comedy of stuttering progress, “and then two months later there’s a backsliding of it,” said Burris, who then put the city on notice that he and Chanin were considering receivership if real progress couldn’t finally be made. Before taking his seat to listen to what the city attorney or Chief Batts might say in their defense, Burris let his discontent be known by paraphrasing baseball legend Yogi Berra, as famous for his malapropisms as for his bat and glove: “I hope this isn’t déjà vu all over again.” * * * The Great Recession’s impact was like a second coming of Proposition 13. Oakland’s finances were decimated at a moment of great need for housing, jobs, and basic food security, and coming at a time when greater police accountability was being called for.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Published 10 Sep 2007

Hence we get a school full of Susans and Steves in the 1960s and of Chloës and Dylans today. But then the next generation of parents will react to the hyperstevism or hyperdylanism by looking for a new new thing, sending the curves careening in yet another direction. The dynamic is reminiscent of Yogi Berra’s restaurant review: “No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Baby-name advisors like Pamela Satran try to advise parents on categories of names on the horizon that are neither too common nor too outré—perhaps heroes’ last names, like Monet or Koufax, or color words, like Taupe or Cerulean.48 (Yogi, anyone?)

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
by P. W. Singer
Published 1 Jan 2010

A military’s doctrine then shapes everything it does, from how it trains soldiers and what type of weapons it buys to the tactics it uses to fight with them in the field. Doctrines also depend on a bit of prediction about the future. In a sense, doctrine is an “outline of how we fight, based on past experience and an educated guess about likely future circumstance.” Yogi Berra put it best: “If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.” Hence the stakes for choosing the right doctrine are huge. Technologies matter greatly in war, but so do the visions that shape the institutions that use them. A telling historic example comes from that same period between the world wars that Robert Bateman referred to.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
Published 14 Jul 2005

That's why people tend to overestimate what can be achieved in the short term (because we tend to leave out necessary details) but underestimate what can be achieved in the long term (because exponential growth is ignored). The Six Epochs First we build the tools, then they build us. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN The future ain't what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order. I'll discuss the concept of order in the next chapter; the emphasis in this section is on the concept of patterns. I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 2002

Therefore you must be prepared to defend yourself. Defense is an iffy matter even with technologies such as castle walls, the Maginot Line, or antiballistic missile defenses, and it is even iffier without them. The only option for self-protection may be to wipe out potentially hostile neighbors first in a preemptive strike. As Yogi Berra advised, “The best defense is a good offense and vice versa.” Tragically, you might arrive at this conclusion even if you didn’t have an aggressive bone in your body. All it would take is the realization that others might covet what you have and a strong desire not to be massacred. Even more tragically, your neighbors have every reason to be cranking through the same deduction, and if they are, it makes your fears all the more compelling, which makes a preemptive strike all the more tempting, which makes a preemptive strike by them all the more tempting, and so on.

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Steve Coll
Published 29 Mar 2009

Favor begat favor between these two governments during the late Cold War, and secret begat secret, a pattern of conduct that required an unusual measure of personal trust and understanding at the highest levels. Fahd’s visit to Washington was therefore of timely significance. Reagan was a master of the theatrical and ceremonial aspects of his office, and he prepared to put on a show. Up the White House driveway they strolled on the chilly night of February 11—Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees manager; Vice President George Bush; Linda Gray, star of Dallas, the television series about oil barons; Oscar Wyatt, the genuine Texas oil baron; the actress Sigourney Weaver; and Donald and Ivana Trump. “It’s exciting. It’s Americana. It’s Ronald Reagan,” joked Saturday Night Live comedian Joe Piscopo, who was also on the state dinner’s guest list.

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
by Tony Robbins
Published 18 Nov 2014

It sounds too good to be true, but in reality, it’s the ultimate in creating a portfolio that truly offers you peace of mind. For now let me show you three tools that can help you limit many of your investment risks and maximize your investment returns in a traditional investing format. The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. —NIELS BOHR On March 2, 2009, Paul Tudor Jones told me that the market was hitting its absolute bottom. Prices would start rising again. Spring was coming. So I tweeted: By the way, it was the first time I ever tweeted any information on the potential direction of the stock market!

How to Survive a Pandemic
by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM

“From a public health point of view, and an animal health point of view, this virus is just getting a stronger and stronger grip on the region.”754 In a tone uncharacteristic of international policy institutions, the FAO wrote: “Over this bleak landscape sits a black cloud of fear that the virus might become adapted to enable human-to-human transmission and then spread around the globe.”755 The urgency and alarm among those tracking H5N1’s building momentum was palpable.756 “It’s like watching a volcano getting ready to erupt,” described a spokesperson of the World Organization for Animal Health (known as OIE, for Office Internationale des Epizooties).757 “We’re all holding our breath,” said Julie Gerberding, former head of the CDC.758 Two Minutes to Midnight When would the H5N1 pandemic strike? The experts were vague on that point, and “probably sooner rather than later,”759 “any time now,”760 “this year or next”761 were common refrains. Some wondered why it hadn’t happened already.762 “It’s tough to make predictions,” said Yogi Berra, “especially about the future.” Some attempted to take comfort in the fact that the virus had been in existence for almost ten years and hadn’t sparked a pandemic yet.763 Evidence suggests, though, that the 1918 virus was “smouldering” for at least eleven years before it went pandemic.764 Even if greater numbers of people started falling ill, the virus may still need to fine-tune its human appetite.

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Published 23 Sep 2013

Our philosophy is that you are the world expert on your life, your body, and your mind, or at least you are in the best position to become that expert if you observe carefully. Part of the adventure of meditation is to use yourself as a laboratory to find out who you are and what you are capable of. As the legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra once put it in his unique and charmingly quirky way, “You can observe a lot by just watching.” I The Practice of Mindfulness: Paying Attention 1 You Have Only Moments to Live Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else.

The Rough Guide to New York City
by Martin Dunford
Published 2 Jan 2009

Leading the way was George Herman “Babe” Ruth, who had joined the team in 1920 (from the Boston Red Sox, still the team’s archrivals). The original “Bronx Bomber,” Ruth hit the stadium’s first home run – soon enough, Yankee Stadium was known as “The House That Ruth Built.” Playing alongside Ruth, Lou Gehrig earned the nickname “The Iron Horse” by playing in 2130 consecutive games. Joe DiMaggio, “Yogi” Berra, Mickey Mantle, and Reggie Jackson also all wore the famous Yankee pinstripes. The Yankees won the World Series an amazing nineteen times between 1927 and 1962 and finished the twentieth century with three straight titles, but despite the largest payroll in baseball (nearly twice that of the team with the next highest), the Yankees haven’t won the World Series since 2000.

The Rough Guide to New York City
by Rough Guides
Published 21 May 2018

The original “Bronx Bomber”, Ruth hit the stadium’s first home run – and soon enough, Yankee Stadium was known as “The House That Ruth Built”. Playing alongside Ruth, Lou Gehrig earned the nickname “The Iron Horse” by playing in 2130 consecutive games (a record that stood for 56 years); the championships began to roll in, even more so when Joe DiMaggio joined Gehrig on the team after Ruth’s retirement. “Yogi” Berra, Mickey Mantle, former single-season home run leader Roger Maris, Reggie Jackson and, more recently, Mariano Rivera were but a few other greats who also wore the famous Yankee pinstripes. The Yankees won the World Series an amazing nineteen times between 1927 and 1962 and finished the twentieth century with three straight titles; after a nine-year gap, they returned to the top in 2009.

How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 1997

Whether or not he was right about quantum mechanics and the cosmos, his statement is certainly not true of the games people play in their daily lives. Life is not chess but backgammon, with a throw of the dice at every turn. As a result, it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future (as Yogi Berra allegedly said). But in a universe with any regularities at all, decisions informed by the past are better than decisions made at random. That has always been true, and we would expect organisms, especially informavores such as humans, to have evolved acute intuitions about probability. The founders of probability theory, like the founders of logic, assumed that they were just formalizing common sense.

EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody
Published 7 May 2018

Sydney time, when world financial markets open, the deutschemark trades against the dollar and the euro. The euro depreciates against the other major currencies. And when the German stock exchange rings its opening bell that morning, the screens display share prices in deutschmarks. It is a new start. “The future,” as Yogi Berra might have said, “ain’t what it used to be.” the future ain’t what it used to be 457 Epilogue L ogically, the euro could do no economic or political good. It could do a lot of harm. The warnings were sounded. It need not have been. It almost wasn’t. The rest followed. It could get worse, much worse.

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris
Published 14 Feb 2023

America was supposed to be the land of dynamism, but a number of the country’s advanced economic sectors were languishing, especially compared to how quickly Germany and Japan were developing under neo-imperial systems. Hoover understood that government had to establish a base level of coordination and standardization around novel technologies. Capital was stuck in Yogi Berra’s “Nobody goes there, it’s too crowded” contradiction: Investors were scared off by reasonable fears of free-riding on research and development, price competition, and a lack of standardization. No one wanted to be stuck holding the bag when the new rules came down. This is where the associative model came in: Hoover could provide not just physical infrastructure with water and power, but also the informational infrastructure new industries needed to become investable.

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
by William D. Cohan
Published 11 Apr 2011

The fact that both credit-rating agencies had bestowed AAA ratings on $505.6 million—or 72.4 percent—out of the total $698.4 million of the mortgage-backed securities Goldman was selling in April 2006 no doubt conveyed a level of security to investors that probably never existed, especially since investors did not do their own detailed due diligence on the underlying mortgages but rather instead just relied upon the Goldman imprimatur and that of the ratings agencies to make their investment decisions. (Goldman’s similar behavior vis-à-vis the ratings agencies leading up to the Penn Central bankruptcy springs to mind; it’s déjà vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say.) By spring 2006, investors were probably not aware of the growing internal doubts of analysts at both S&P and Moody’s about the mortgage-backed securities they were rating. For instance, at a weeklong housing conference, held on Amelia Island, Florida, in April 2005, two S&P credit analysts noted that the housing market seemed to be getting a little frothy and that the financial risks to the industry were ratcheting up as housing prices skyrocketed and lending standards deteriorated.

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Published 15 Nov 2011

But most of the numbers were beside the point in deciding whether to expand, contract, hire, build, prosecute, assassinate, bomb, or arrest. Accounting, after all, is necessarily about the past. It is a story. Yet business and governmental and personal decisions are, of course, about the future, which usually is in important respects unknowable. As Yogi Berra, and Niels Bohr, said, “It’s hard to predict. Especially about the future.” What the modern fascination with charts, graphs, figures, and calculations does show, in other words, is that moderns especially admire prudence. It does not show that they always practice it. To suppose mistakenly that calculation is the same thing as practicing rationality might be called the “Max Weber rationality attribution error.”

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by Studs Terkel
Published 1 Jan 1974

Everybody gets a kick out of feeling special. I think that’s one part of this game. I’ve never been a big star. I’ve never done anything outstanding. I feel I’ve been as good as I can be with the equipment I have. I played with Mickey Mantle and now I’m playing with Willie Mays. People always recognize them. Yogi Berra, people always recognize him. Yogi has a face you couldn’t forget. But for someone to recognize me! “I signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1958, with their farm club. Back and forth in the minors.” He was working on a master’s degree. A scout signed him up. “I told them I was twenty-one. I was really twenty-three.

Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman
Published 31 Oct 2013

The hype that accompanied the promotion of successive strategic fashions exaggerated the importance of the enlightened manager and played down the importance of chance and circumstances in explaining success. PART V Theories of Strategy CHAPTER 36 The Limits of Rational Choice In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. —Yogi Berra (also attributed to Albert Einstein) THIS SECTION is concerned with the possibility of strategic theory based on the insights of contemporary social sciences. We have already seen how apparently detached intellectual activity was the product of wider social forces, whether the effort put in by the RAND Corporation to develop new sciences of decision-making, the foundation grants that encouraged business schools to adopt these—and which the more sociologically inclined organizational theorists sought to resist—or else the impact of the radical thinking of the 1960s on the relationship between discourse and power.

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
Published 15 Nov 2010

It would be natural to guess that the shared probability p in this mixed-strategy equilibrium would be 0.6, but this is not necessarily the case. Instead, p depends on the payoffs x and −y: following the reasoning we saw in Chapter 6, we need to choose p so that each player is indifferent between choosing Go 6As Brian Arthur notes, this latter possibility is a reflection of the same phenomenon that the baseball player Yogi Berra invoked when he quipped about a popular restaurant, “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded” [26, 104]. 17.7. ADVANCED MATERIAL: NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES AND THE EL FAROL BAR PROBLEM545 and choosing Stay. This will ensure that no one has an incentive to deviate from randomizing between the two alternatives.

Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
by Robert N. Proctor
Published 28 Feb 2012

Liggett also had what it called the “Cigarette League,” a team of Chesterfield-smoking ballplayers assembled purely for advertising purposes, starring pitcher Robin Roberts of the Phillies and other baseball greats. For the Perry Como Show and newspaper dailies, Liggett named a “Chesterfield Star Team” with Yogi Berra as catcher and Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams in the outfield. “They’re all great ball players, and they all agree Chesterfield is a great cigarette.”2 Substantial sums were paid to teams for such purposes. Liggett in 1950, for example, paid the New York Giants $291,368 for the privilege of airing its games on the radio, plus another $214,829 for TV rights.

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William D. Cohan
Published 25 Dec 2015

Consequently, these shareholders filed some 950 petitions against the IRS in U.S. Tax Court, seeking to fight these new tax bills. As a result of ITT and the ITT board of directors being named a defendant in Herbst's original lawsuit, and then since Lazard had been added as a named defendant, Felix, Andre, and Tom Mullarkey all testified in the case. As Yogi Berra would say, it was deja vu all over again. Felix testified twice in the Herbst matter. On November 16, 1973--before the IRS's new ruling--he testified about the circumstances related to ITT's "sale" of the 1.7 million shares of the Hartford stock to Mediobanca. And once again, he stuck to his story of having no role whatsoever in the transaction between ITT and Mediobanca and that only Andre and Tom Mullarkey were even the slightest bit involved, and then only tangentially.

Frommer's Hawaii 2009
by Jeanette Foster
Published 2 Jan 2008

These areas are generally quieter and more residential than Waikiki, but they’re still within minutes of beaches, shopping, and all the activities Oahu has to offer. Waikiki Some say that Waikiki is past its prime—that everybody goes to Maui now. If it has fallen out of favor, you couldn’t prove it by me. Waikiki is the very incarnation of Yogi Berra’s comment about Toots Shor’s famous New York restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” When King Kalakaua played in Waikiki, it was “a hamlet of plain cottages . . . its excitements caused by the activity of insect tribes and the occasional fall of a coconut.” The Merrie Monarch, who gave his name to Waikiki’s main street, would love the scene today.

The Art of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching
by Donald Ervin Knuth
Published 15 Jan 1998

If we already have a RANK field in each node, for the linear list representation, this is precisely the left weight, and it is possible to keep track of the corresponding right weights as we move down the tree. However, it appears that the bookkeeping required for maintaining weight balance takes more time than Algorithm A, and the elimination of two bits per node is probably not worth the trouble. Why don't you pair 'em up in threes? — attributed to YOGI BERRA (c. 1970) Another interesting alternative to AVL trees, called -3 trees," was intro- introduced by John Hopcroft in 1970 [see Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman, The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1974), Chapter 4]. The idea is to have either 2-way or 3-way branching at each node, and to stipulate that all external nodes appear on the same level.

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007

If you can score tickets to a game, arrange to meet your friends at “the bat,” a 120-foot boiler stack in front of Gate 4, painted with the Louisville Slugger logo and Babe Ruth’s signature. Arrive early and go down to Monument Park (at field level) to see the plaques honoring Yankee greats like Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Mickey Mantle—and still have time to buy a hot dog and an ice-cold beer and find your seats. The team began back in 1903 (though they wouldn’t be called the Yankees until ten years later), but it was in January 1920 that they acquired Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, an event that turned the tide for the till-then unremarkable team.