The source of the greatest errors is to be found in those moves that are made merely according to rule and not based on the individual plan or thought of the player.
Richard Réti
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Arthur Eddington
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert Coveyou
Beware of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confession obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.
Stephen Stigler
As a language, R is like French; it has an elegant core, but every rule comes with a set of ad-hoc exceptions that directly contradict it.
Floréal Morandat et al.