The following quotations where found by me on the usenet newsgroups, on email messages and on books. Some of them were passed to me by my friend Guerreiro. If you know some cool quotations then just drop them at pavao@bigfoot.com and I promise I'll put them in the page as soon as possible. I couldn't find the authors' names of some quotations so they are signed with "Unknown Author". If you happen to know who is the author please send me a message so that I can complete the missing information on the page. If you're the author of any quotation in this page and you wouldn't like it to be here, please let me know.   Quotations by Subject: Miscellaneous Statistics Macintosh quotations   back to Home   Miscellaneous   To be uncertain is uncomfortable to be certain is ridiculous. Unknown Author   When the only tool you have is a hammer, it's amazing how quickly everything becomes a nail. Unknown Author   Reading is sometimes an ingenuous device to avoid thought. Sir Arthur Helps, 1850   Progress is not an accident but a necessity. Herbert Spencer   Today the only thing that is permanent is change. Charles H. Mayo   I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has the data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia"   The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. T. H. Huxley   Pundits and barflies: Both have a zillion opinions, and neither have ever managed either a ball club or a multibillion-dollar company. Mark Kellner in Washington Times July 14, 1997   back to Quotations by Subject list   Statistics   Many authors use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post. For support rather than illumination. Unknown Author   There is the lie, and then statistics. Unknown Author   It is better to be satisfied with probabilities than to demand impossibilities and starve. F. C. S. Schiller   Statistics is like bikinis: it reveals a lot but it hides the essential. Unknown Author   back to Quotations by Subject list   Macintosh Quotations   The box said: "Requires Windows 95 or better". So I bought a Macintosh. Somewhere on the usenet   I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby. Shane Anderson   back to Quotations by Subject list   Do you know any cool quotations that should be here ? Just email them to me so that I can put them here.