J Tukey Quotes

#1. You do not need drugs and alcohol to change who you are - You are perfect just the way you are.

Chris Herren

#2. we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How,

C. G. Jung

#3. The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

John Tukey

#4. A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.

Michael Dolan

#5. I trust this woman more than I trust myself right now. And that scares me in a way I haven't been scared in a very long time.

Lisa Renee Jones

#6. Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.

Hillary Clinton

#7. All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

John Tukey

#8. An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

John Tukey

#9. If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

John Tukey

#10. By giving to yourself you are fulfilled, abundant and generous. You have spare love to share.

Annette Vaillancourt

#11. I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Adam Rapp

#12. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

John Tukey

#13. I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

Ingrid Bergman

#14. The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

Corey Feldman

#15. Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

John Tukey

#16. It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.

Eric Weiner

#17. In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

John Tukey

#18. I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

Nicole Kidman

#19. I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

John Tukey

#20. There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

John Tukey

#21. This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

John Tukey

#22. Alas, a great many people play at praying; it is nothing better. I say they play at praying; they do not expect God to give them an answer, and thus they are mere triflers who mock the Lord. He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Allan Sloan

#24. Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

John Tukey

#25. Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

John Tukey

#26. In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

John Tukey

#27. To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

John Tukey

#28. When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.

John Tukey

#29. It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

John Tukey

#30. All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

#31. I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

Ray Nagin