We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls. — Bruce Ellis Copy Share Image
“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.” — Roger Jones Copy Share Image
“A small sample, we repeat, is rarely the big scientific problem. Interpretation is.” — Stephen Thomas Ziliak Copy Share Image
After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Aaron Levenstein Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read. — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. — Alphonse Allais Copy Share Image
As long as I can back up what I say with film and statistics and experience, I can say whatever that film… — Ryan Clark Copy Share Image
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to… — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just 27 percent of poor families… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St.… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image