"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
— Statistics

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297