Statistics Quotations

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

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

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

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.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

We are looking forward to (today). We have elected to do it the old fashioned way and really concentrate on fundamentals. Looking at the team statistics last year, one area we really need to continue to improve is shooting. We know that it's never easy when there is a new staff. It's not an easy road. We know there will be some bumps in the road, but you will see a team that will play hard.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Everything tries to be round.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

Even theories must have foundations.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Training was one thing, reality another.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

We use statistics to analyze the transaction records of every customer.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

We have a profile on how users typically move through the real estate process on our platform and we also have statistics for our clients on how the advertisers can generate the best results.

You know my methods. Apply them.