Funny Quote by W. Edwards Deming

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

— George E. P. Box

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

— Peter Norvig

“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”

— Anonymous

...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne…

— George E. P. Box

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

— Myron Scholes

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

— Myron Scholes

Models are to be used, not believed.

— Henri Theil

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

— James D. Watson

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and…

— Andrew Weil

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

— Lisa Randall

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

— David Brooks