I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this,… — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
“...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that these officers have tens of… — David Klinger Copy Share Image
I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do… — Luis Suarez Copy Share Image
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“many instances of supervisory madness are not the result of malice or idiocy, but rather genuine unawareness due to impeded data-flows (and… — Uri Bram Copy Share Image
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. — William W Watt Copy Share Image
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on… — Alfred E. Perlman Copy Share Image
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. — J. L. Carr Copy Share Image
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics.… — Allan Border Copy Share Image
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal. — Armand Trousseau Copy Share Image
Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall. — John Dee Copy Share Image
