aez-lists-quotes

Aristotle managed to write a library-worth of books without requiring any footnotes, which leads us to ask whether we should use them at all.

• Nicholas Hudson

Statistics is the least important part of data science

• Andrew Gelman

Numbers do not lie, but they do have the propensity to tell the truth with intent to deceive.

• Eric Temple Bell

It is a painful thing

To look at your own trouble and know

That you yourself and no one else has made it

• Sophocles

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.

• Steve McConnell

In science the primary duty of ideas is to be useful and interesting even more than to be "true."

• Wilfred Trotter

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away…

• Antoine de St. Exupery

There are no routine statistical questions; only questionable statistical routines.

• David R. Cox

He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

• George Orwell

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

• John Tukey

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyze them.

• William James