Baffled Me Quotes by John Allen Paulos

More Quotes by John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
• The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the…
• Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.
• Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
• The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
• In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an…
• In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
• Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.
• I think, therefore I laugh.
• Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not…
• The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
• How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many…

See all 13 quotes by John Allen Paulos »