Famous quotes containing the words individual and/or statistics:
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the darkthat is critical genius.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)