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

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

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.

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.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.