Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

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.

I think, therefore I laugh.

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.