“I'm not a mathematician, but I've been hanging around with some of them long enough to know how the game is played.”

—  Brian Hayes (scientist)

Variant: I'm not a gambling person, but I've been around long enough and I know how to play it.
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 12, Group Theory In The Bedroom, p. 232

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