“My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.”
“If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”
“They probably have me up on a poster by now. Warning: this girl is emotionally unstable. Do not allow near hot beverages.”
“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.”
“The world is not perfect and neither am I; I live with a margin of error.”
“Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”