Models Quotes

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

There are plenty of models who have children.

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

I started as a model when I was 14 because I wanted to make money.

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

The first time I ever came to fashion week, everyone was wearing heels.

The paradigm shift of the ImageNet thinking is that while a lot of people are paying attention to models, let's pay attention to data. Data will redefine how we think about models.

America must be a model citizen if we want others to look at us as a model. We can’t torture or treat inhumanely suspected terrorists we have captured.

I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.