The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James Copy Share Image
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls. — Bruce Ellis Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal, really, is to win a championship. That's my ultimate goal no matter the statistics or how I do it… — Jae Crowder Copy Share Image
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and… — Harmon Killebrew Copy Share Image
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even… — J. Neven-Pugh Copy Share Image
The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all… — Dave Barry 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
“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
The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden (To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
“The mind is more comfortable in reckoning probabilities in terms of the relative frequency of remembered or imagined events. That can make… — Steven Pinker 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
“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
