Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery. This is not one of those memoirs.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
Whenever you can, count.