An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

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.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.

The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.

Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It's what we all have in common. That, and masturbation.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.