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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.