Statistics Quotes

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

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.

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.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

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.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

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.

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.

According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.

You see, but you do not observe.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

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

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

Whenever you can, count.

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.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

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.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Statistics are for losers.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

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

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.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

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.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

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.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

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

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.