People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
“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
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota 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 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
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. — Chili Davis Copy Share Image
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a… — Stephen Thomas Ziliak Copy Share Image
Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There's no handbook to parenting, there's just opinions and statistics. — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
“Writing requires immortal thoughts hidden in your conscience which lead you to all philosophical, emotional, romantic statistics of the humans of this… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image