Humor Quote by Anonymous

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

— William Gilmore Simms

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

— Edgar Fiedler

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things…

— Robert Benchley

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations…

— Barry Ritholtz

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

“Right now I don't have patience to deal with people who IQ lands on the right side of the decimal point.”

— Suzanne Wright Feral Sins

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

— Nathan Seiberg

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you…

— Ha-Joon Chang

It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.

— Ben Miller

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

— Jeffrey Wright

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff…

— Arthur Smith