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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.