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

Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

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

In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.