Quotes About Statisticians

#1. Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Steven Pinker

#2. Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians ... Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

Spencer Antle

#4. If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

Anna Quindlen

#5. Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.

Eike Batista

#6. 61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.

Jon Stewart

#7. 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

#8. Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

James Thurber

#9. I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

Hal Varian

#10. Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

Anthony Goldbloom

#12. I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?

Hal Varian

#13. Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

Rob Lowe

#14. Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

W. H. Auden

#15. I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Friedrich Engels

#16. Whatever the cost, however financed, the benefits for park visitors in health and happiness
virtues unknown to statisticians
would be immeasurable.

Edward Abbey

#17. 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

#18. There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Mark Twain

#19. Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Lillian Hellman

#20. The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

John T. Flynn

#21. Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Nicolas Sarkozy

#22. then came a virus like an avenging angel, unsurvivable, a microbe that reduced the population of the fallen world by, what? There were no more statisticians by then, my angels, but shall we say ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent?

Emily St. John Mandel

#23. American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

David Ignatius

#24. If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

George Bernard Shaw

#25. A generation of lawyers and statisticians cut their teeth on the to-hit and damage tables of medieval fantasy. File it under yet another ridiculous thing that probably saved somebody's life.

Austin Grossman

#26. Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

George E.P. Box

#27. It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.

Wayne Swan

#28. The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

Sylvia Porter

#29. All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Thomas Sowell

#30. The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.

Michael Jacobs

#31. The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

James Russell Lowell

#32. Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

John C. Maxwell

#33. On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#34. Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?

Sarah Dessen

#35. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

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