How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection