“The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.”

— Aleister Crowley , book Magick Without Tears

Ch XXI.
Magick Without Tears (1954)

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poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875–1947

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“If president Obama is doing the wrong thing, I'm not going to tell you that he's doing the right thing so I can “support him.””

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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”

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“We had to be able to make a decision like that, without reprocessing all of our learning. So we take a small slice of information and a profile of the customer, set up a promotion, prime up the customer's history, and wait for the events. It primes up just the right amount of information in real time… [A system like that, ] might not be as precise, but it would be statistically good enough. Maybe it would be wrong five percent of the time, but that's okay. It would be more like making judgment calls.”

Sumit Chowdhury (1969) Indian writer and businessman

Source: Vivek Ranadive, ‎Kevin Maney (2011) The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough. p. 109-10

“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”

Andrejs Dunkels (1939–1998)

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“And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.”

Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet

Source: ‪Platero and I‬ (1917), Ch. 2 : White Butterflies, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
Context: The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.

“Nature is usually wrong.”

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) American-born, British-based artist

1870 - 1903, his lecture 'Ten O'Clock' (1885)

“The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.”

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