A Quote by Alan K. Simpson

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Alan K. Simpson

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Alan K. Simpson
American - Politician
Born: September 2, 1931

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

Ronald Coase

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Gregg Easterbrook

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

Adam Vinatieri

As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.

Claude Bernard

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Hilaire Belloc

Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.

Roger Altman

Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment.

Henry Rollins

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll

I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.

Yoweri Museveni

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Jerrold Nadler

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Cory Doctorow

If you think you're something long enough, eventually, you just turn into it.

Bazzi

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

Jack Canfield

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