The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

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

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

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

In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.