"If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers."

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Edward Tufte

#Numbers Quotes #Statistics Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Hello...911? I'd like to report a robbery, looks like Trish and Tomko stole the show!”
“I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.”
“The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.”
“California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.”
“DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.”
“I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.”
“Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.”

Source : Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
“There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.”

Source : James Dwight Dana (1875). “Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History”, p.770

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