#statistics

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

"Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious."

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know."

"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment."

"All statistics have outliers."

"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious."