309 Quotes About Statistics

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

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

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

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