It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.