There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.
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.
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
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 our new-found convictions.
over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
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.
The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.
Whenever you can, count.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.
Statistics are there to be broken.
"I see it, but I don't believe it. "
You have not had thirty years' experience. . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.
I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
We know nothing until intuition agrees.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.