Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

– Mark Twain

Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a voice.

– Steven Few

If the statistics are boring, you’ve got the wrong numbers

– Edward Tufte

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage

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