“Detectives, our monthly crime statistics are due. I want paperwork on all your closed cases by tomorrow. Scully, you can just write 'I didn't close any' on a piece of paper.”— Gil Ozeri, Captain Ray Holt, Andre Braugher, imdb.com
“Heather McNamara: Suicide is a private thing. Veronica Sawyer: You're throwing your life away to become a statistic on US fucking A Today. That's about the least private thing I can think of.”— Daniel Waters, Veronica Sawyer, Winona Ryder, amazon.com
“Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Morgan: What makes you feel confident? Reid: Statistics.”— Breen Frazier, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
“The United States alone holds over 45 percent of the global pharmaceutical market. In 2016, this share was valued around 446 billion U.S. dollars.”— Statista, statista.com
“There's no way to avoid becoming a statistic. Just try to become a good statistic.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Statistics show that the average person has sex 89 times a year. If that's the case then I'm in for a wild December.”— caitlin, twitter.com
“My father succeeded without a college degree, but that would be much harder to do today. According to the Census Bureau, people with a bachelor’s degree earn an average of $ 51,000 a year. That’s $ 23,000 more a year than people with just high school diplomas and almost three times as much as high s…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“The normal experience of social software is failure. If you go into Yahoo groups and you map out the subscriptions, it is, unsurprisingly, a power law. There's a small number of highly populated groups, a moderate number of moderately populated groups, and this long, flat tail of failure. And the fa…”— Clay Shirky, shirky.com