If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

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.

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.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.

Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

I haven't decided when I'll get married.

People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.