John Tukey Quotes
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!
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Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.
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It's not a battle that we would have designed. Heavy mechanized forces were coming up against light infantry, and frankly, we held our breath.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.
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I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
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Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!
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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
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The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.
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A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
