Quotes About Numbers And Statistics

#1. If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.

Tracy Morgan

#2. Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom."
Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

Cassandra Clare

#3. If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

Edward R. Tufte

#4. It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing ...

Gudrun Ensslin

#5. If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

Tim Kurkjian

#7. You listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

John Geddes

#8. We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

Martha Gellhorn

#9. The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Keith Devlin

#10. The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.

Stephen Senn

#11. Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

Joe Torre

#12. We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#13. Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.

Pankaj Mishra

#14. 99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Ron DeLegge II

#15. It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Robert Hooke

#16. As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.

Henry Rosovsky

#17. What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Bill Moyers

#18. The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

Herb Gray

#19. An opinion that isn't read or heard is as good as unsaid.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.

Steve Maraboli

#21. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

Ludwig Von Mises

#22. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Ireland

#23. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

Neil Gaiman

#24. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Edward Tufte

#26. You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.

Scarlett Johansson

#27. Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Brendan Rodgers

#28. I am a believer in cooperation.

Franco Modigliani

#29. Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!

Hermann Broch

#30. I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Koren Zailckas

#31. In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.

Brian D. McLaren

#32. children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.

Glenn Meade

#33. My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Luis Von Ahn

#34. The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Jeff Olson

#35. I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.

Rory Kennedy

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Oscar Wilde

#37. In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Gunter Grass