"I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want."
Stephanie Plum/Janet Evanovich (1943 - )
To us, probability is the very guide of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE - 43 BCE)
Let me throw a mathematical dilemma at you - there`s 500 left. Well how come the odds of you winning are a million to one?
Simon Cowell (1959 - )
Essentially, all models are wrong; some are useful.
George E.P. Box (1919 - 2013)
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions.
Samuel Karlin (1924 - 2007)
While nothing is more uncertain than the duration of a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright (1804 - 1885)
One sees in this essay that the theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
William H. Mauldin (1921 - 2003)
Luck is probability taken personally. It is the excitement of bad math.
Penn F. Jillette (1955 - )
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)