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Any bit of nonsense can be computerized—astrology, biorhythms, the I Ching—but that doesn’t make the nonsense any more valid.

— John Allen Paulos Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988)

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There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988)

In general, any differences between two groups will always be greatly accentuated at the extremes.

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)

Even the most superficial of a newspaper reveals an important aspect of human psychology: our preoccupation with the short term.

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)

Appreciating humor—even recognizing it—requires human skills of the highest order (level?); no computer comes close to having them.

Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor (1980)

Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune to computer simulation.

Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor (1980)

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