Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

- Darrell Huff

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statisti…

- Darrell Huff

The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it.…

- Darrell Huff

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

- Darrell Huff

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

- Darrell Huff

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

- Darrell Huff

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

- Darrell Huff