Jake Arrieta Quotes

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Whenever you can, count.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

Stats aren't everything.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

I've never been a stat guy.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.