"In God we trust. All others must bring data."
— W. Edwards Deming

January 1, 1970

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Frequently attributed to Deming; it appears in The Deming Management Method, by Mary Walton, 1986, p. 96, without any attribution, to Deming or anyone else: — Chapter 20: Doing It with Data: "In God we trust. All others must bring data." If there is a credo for statisticians, it is that.