“ I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. ”
- Ernest Rutherford- Copy
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“ To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. ”
- Ronald Fisher- Copy
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“ The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. ”
- Sylvia Porter- Copy
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“ The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers. ”
- Jamais Cascio- Copy
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“ We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ”
- Plato- Copy
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“ Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.). ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ”
- Ronald Fisher- Copy
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“ If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ”
- E. W. Dijkstra- Copy
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“ Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ”
- Professor Edsger Dijkstra- Copy
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“ Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. ”
- Joseph Wood Krutch- Copy
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“ Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons. ”
- Popular Mechanics- Copy
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