Data Quote by Kent Beck

“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

“Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter.”

— Steve Maraboli

“We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions.”

— Victor Sheymov

“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my…

— Kathryn Schulz

“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”

— Edward Tufte

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

“human errors in the collection and interpretation of data must be corrected by human analysis,”

— Scott Hartley

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

— David Levithan

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather…

— John Banham

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

— Mark Twain