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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're different. - Albert Einstein

If all a man has is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. - Hugo Breiman (on parametric modelling)

Surely God loves .06 nearly as much as .05 - Ralph Rosnow & Robert Rosenthal (on statistical inference)

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity. - Amos Tversky

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful - Georges Box

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. - Dan Ariely 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius

The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a mode. (...) He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system. - Jay Wright Forrester

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. - Vincent Van Gogh

Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad. - Cory House