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• Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
  -- G. O. Ashley...
• Numbers are tools, not rules. -- G. O. Ashley
• Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the thing are not the same. -- G. O. Ashley
• Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance. -- G. O. Ashley
• The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equatio
  it is not the solution to a problem. -- G. O. Ashley...
• Arithmetical proofs of theorems that do not have arithmetical bases prove nothing. -- G. O. Ashley
• DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Joey: Well, see when you're acting you need to think about stuff like that.
  My character, Joseph the processor guy, has two little girls, Ashley and Brittany....
• quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Systè
  me International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses....