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

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

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.

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

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.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

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