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.

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

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

I think, therefore I laugh.

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

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

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