The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels 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
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around… — George Brett 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
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated… — Spencer Antle Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Look, I'm an actor, I'm not a politician. I'm not a statistician. I'm not a legislator. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
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