Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

  • -- Evan Esar 埃文·伊萨尔

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

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You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

你不知道是什么激励了你。你喜欢认为你知道是什么激励着你,但归根到底,我不认为你真的知道。看着一张白纸,走到一个乐器前,却不知道会发生什么,这感觉很棒。这是我做过的最具挑战性的事情。

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家,可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

这是一个经常在毕业典礼上流传的神话,认为只有希望和希望才在学术殿堂之外。别担心,开心点。一切都很好。

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

他们的技术根本就是有缺陷的,太荒谬了。他们把球打平。他们都站得笔直,只是他们做错了太多事情。

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

强迫一个人为他所不相信和厌恶的思想的传播提供资金是罪恶和专制的。

If you still believe, you must have hope. You must believe that happiness is possible for you too.

如果你仍然相信,你必须有希望。你必须相信幸福对你来说也是可能的。

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

认识到我没有获得奖牌的人,也应该认识到我本可以赢得三枚奖牌。

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

我挖鼻孔,我并不羞于承认。如果有妖怪,就挑吧,伙计。

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

对身体不好的人的任性应该给予很大的体谅。

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

我对壁球的定义是比赛和生存,我从来没有输过一场比赛。

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.

我对诅咒的定义可能与别人的不同。

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

如果你不知道什么,承认它。但是,试着用你所知道的给他们留下深刻的印象。

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

老朋友的好处之一就是你可以和他们一起做傻事。

It is only the foolish cock that believes the sun won't rise if he doesn't crow.

只有愚蠢的公鸡才相信,如果他不啼叫,太阳就不会升起来。

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

每个人都知道如何抚养孩子,除了那些有孩子的人。

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

我将为认识到石油不会永远存在的能源政策而努力。

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

从正确的开始,而不是从可以接受的开始。

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

如果你受不了热,就离开厨房。

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

如果没有上帝,谁会弹出下一个纸巾?

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

没有什么比一个年轻的悲观主义者更悲哀的了。

You either are a good director or you're not.

你要么是个好导演,要么不是。

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

说得好的谎言和说实话一样好。

There are some things you never get used to.

有些事情你永远不会习惯。

No man is ever old enough to know better.

再老的人也不会懂得更多。

I was always handsome under all the fat.

尽管我很胖,但我总是很帅。