In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
John Allen PaulosUncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection
John Allen PaulosInnumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
John Allen PaulosHow 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?
John Allen Paulos