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

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

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

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.

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

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.