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.

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

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

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.

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.

Think it. Write it. Sell it.

Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey stoopid.

As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

The law doesn't create a right.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.