"In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation."

-- John Tukey

#Thinking Quotes #Data Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.”
“I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.”
“I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.”
“The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.”

Source : Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”
“There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.”
“Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.”
“On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.”
“Succeeding in business is all about making connections”

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