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

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.

Innumeracy 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.

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

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