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Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
I'm a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped at the chance.
Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.
I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.
Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.
Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.
Personally, I don't focus much about the statistics of goals and assists. I always want to improve, but I'm not worried about statistics.
Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first few years, that's all I would focus on.
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.