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.

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.

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.

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

Here’s the thing, making out with a girl on camera … They’re beautiful and soft. I get why you guys are into it.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot.