Statistics Quotes - Page 16

You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Training was one thing, reality another.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.