Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection
John Allen PaulosIn 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.
John Allen PaulosIn the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
John Allen PaulosThere 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.
John Allen Paulos