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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
John Tukey
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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
George A. Romero
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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
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If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Paul Harvey
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany
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Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
Holger Czukay
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Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
Leonhard Euler
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The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Aleister Crowley
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If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.
John Harvey-Jones
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According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
Morey Amsterdam
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
Daniel Libeskind
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W. S. Gilbert
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You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Robert Solow
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All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.
George E. P. Box
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
Art Buchwald
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I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.
Fernando Torres
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Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
Lester del Rey
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
Niels Bohr
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We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
Peter Cook
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
Hilaire Belloc
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
Bernard Nathanson
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Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
George E. P. Box
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Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Omar Khayyam
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Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.
Robert Solow
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Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.
Lou Piniella
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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
John Dee
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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
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Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
Rudolf Virchow
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The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
David Hockney
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
Edward Tufte
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Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Philip K. Dick
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud
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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
Charles Babbage