Data Quote by Hans Christian von Baeyer

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

— Seth Godin

Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on

— Hussein Nishah

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

— Lord Kelvin

“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and…

— Richard P. Feynman

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

“Qualitative versus quantitative metrics Qualitative metrics are unstructured, anecdotal, revealing, and hard to aggregate; quantitative metrics involve numbers and statistics, and provide hard numbers…

— Alistair Croll

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

— Claude Shannon

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of…

— Alain de Benoist