Statistics Quotes - Page 19

• The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Would Be, Development

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

  Joe Gayton

  Problem, Humans, Appropriate

  4 Copy quote

• Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.

  Jonathan Clements

  Loyalty, Easter, Thinking

  15 Copy quote

• Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Issues, Opposites

  "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," p. 6, 1965.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.

  Fred Reichheld

  Loyalty, Years, Average

  8 Copy quote

• But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Journey, Law, Underestimate

  Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and see competition, it must be freed of insider speculation, be transparent, all people must be aware of the statistics. If we can bring transparency to our economy, we can fight corruption.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Fighting, Government, Long

  10 Copy quote

• We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.

  Eve Ensler

  War, Ideas, People

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

  Manmohan Singh

  Motivational, Poor, Very Good

  8 Copy quote

• Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.

  Tom Peters

  Sorry, Business, Years

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Bmw, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Player, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Data, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Thinking, Coaching

  31 Copy quote

• And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

  Francis Bacon

  Failure, Math, May

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Order

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.416

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Mountain, Weight

  9 Copy quote

• No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

  John W. Campbell

  Philosophy, Sound, Looks

  John W. Campbell (2011). “Cloak of Aesir”, p.6, Hachette UK

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Illumination, Drunk, Support

  1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.

  Sloane Crosley

  Wall, Fun, Real

  Interview with Meghan Daum, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Fall, Thinking, Numbers

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

  Johnny Carson

  Winning, Lightning, Sides

  22 Copy quote

• Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

  John W. Campbell

  Machines, Helping, Menace

  John W. Campbell (2011). “Cloak of Aesir”, p.6, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Truth, Math, Degrees

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “A Treatise on Probability”, p.322, Cosimo, Inc.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

  Erich Honecker

  Wall, Years, Hundred

  16 Copy quote