Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
I bathe in statistics.
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
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.
Round numbers are always false.
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.