Latest Keith Devlin Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your breath a minute and see what's really been going on. We do have reason to feel good about the fact we've made progress.

  Keith Devlin

  Data, Feel Good, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

• Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of saying, oh, well, you know, we don't need to worry about this because that's absolutely not the case. What [Hans] Rosling is doing is showing us an overall global trend, which in a sense tells us how bad things were - doesn't mean to say the problems are gone, doesn't mean to say they're any less.

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Successful, Worry

  Source: www.npr.org

• Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their hands or something. We get [data] wrong because 50 years ago that wasn't the case and because we haven't had these graphics we don't realize that over the last 30, 40, 50 years things have changed dramatically. And you see how the world has been getting a better, safer, more homogeneous place. It just has.

  Keith Devlin

  Data, Hands, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

• In fact, we tend to think things have been getting much worse. In fact, over the last 50 years, almost everything in the world on a global scale has got better. And the way that Hans [ Rosling] did this - it was very good.

  Keith Devlin

  Thinking, Years, Facts

  Source: www.npr.org

• I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite.

  Keith Devlin

  Video, Mets, Youtube

  Source: www.npr.org

• I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one - in 2006, a TED Talk. And for the first time in my life, I thought here's someone who can take statistics that most people regard as dull and boring and bring it alive.

  Keith Devlin

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org