The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to… — Red Holzman Copy Share Image
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause… — Joycelyn Elders 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
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Many people that have been through the unemployment system realize that the corporate government unemployment statistics only report the short term unemployed… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis Copy Share Image
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics.… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.... — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
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