Luck is probability taken personally. It is the excitement of bad math.
Penn F. Jillette (1955 - )
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)
This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
When the weather predicts 30 percent chance of rain, rain is twice as likely as when 60 percent chance is predicted.
Thomas Parry (1947 - )
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of 10 it will.
Paul Harvey (1918 - 2009)
How come you never read a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Jay Leno (1950 - )
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
Dick Cavett (1936 - )
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou (1915 - 1996)
The theory of probabilities is simply the science of logic quantitatively treated.
Charles Saunders Peirce (1839 - 1914)