Average Quote by Sylvia Porter

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

— Coleman Dowell

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

— Michel Onfray

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

— George E. P. Box

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is…

— Michael Lewis

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

— Bradley Efron

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to…

— Claude Shannon

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under…

— Ronald Fisher

I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes…

— Lloyd deMause

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

— E. M. Forster

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

— Ronald Fisher

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels