“ Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs Nancy Pelosi
“ A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) Steven Pinker
