"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."

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Source : "Sunset Salvo" by John Tukey in The American Statistician, Volume 40, No. 1 (pp. 72-76), www.jstor.org. February 1986.

John Tukey

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“I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?”
“I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.”

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“I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.”
“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”
“Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.”
“This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?”
“The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.”
“How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.”

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