Intelligent Quote by Michael Lewis

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

— Vince Lombardi

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come…

— Martha Gellhorn

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods…

— Darrell Huff

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading…

— Norman Tebbit

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

— Koren Zailckas

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

— Bradley Efron

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people…

— Aaron Sorkin