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Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.
Thomas Sowell
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
Heraclitus
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Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.
Mark Getty
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Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.
Oliver DeMille
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
William Faulkner
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
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Why speculate when you can calculate?
John C. Baez
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Thomas Carlyle
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This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.
Ronald Reagan
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Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
Brian Kernighan
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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.
Donald Knuth
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
Story Musgrave
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.
Melinda Gates
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Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
Jimmy Breslin
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him.
Thomas Carlyle
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
Lord Byron
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Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.
Eva Burrows
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Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
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There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.
Gian-Carlo Rota
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Training was one thing, reality another.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.
Joe Torre
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