Tukey Quotes

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

John Tukey

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

John Tukey

#3. 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

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

John Tukey

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

John Tukey

#6. I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#7. 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

#8. Sam grinned. He even laughed.
"What's funny?" she demanded.
"I figured something out before Astrid the Genius. I am totally enjoying that. I'm just going to gloat here for a minute."
"Enjoy it, it may never happen again,

Michael Grant

#9. Love each other or die.

Mitch Albom

#10. 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

#11. I think I held on for so long because I kept hearing that the alternative, monogamy, was oppressive.

Fabian Romero

#12. I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

Abhishek Bachchan

#13. Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

John Tukey

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon
the song of God's miraculous firmament
might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ's love and sacrifice.

Serena B. Miller

#18. Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.

Prixie

#19. I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.

Adam Carolla

#20. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

Robert M. Pirsig

#21. Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

John Tukey

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. In this there are no options, just response, awareness responding to knowing. All the way in and all the way out. This isn't of the earth - this is of the everything.

John De Ruiter

#26. I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Shirley Jackson

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

John Tukey

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

John Tukey

#29. And those people? They like it when you're scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth,

Mira Grant