Statistics Quotes - Page 3

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

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

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

"I see it, but I don't believe it."

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.