Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where..

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics..

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

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning..

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 ….

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences..

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics..

Whenever you can, count..

What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life..

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

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

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it..

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

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet..

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

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used..

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand..

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be g….

We are just statistics, born to consume resources..

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them..