Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706

                           

John Tukey:


"As I am sure almost every geophysicist
knows, distributions of actual errors
and fluctuations have much more straggling
extreme values than would correspond to
the magic bell-shaped distribution of
Gauss and Laplace."
                 




Alan Greenspan:


"Work that characterizes the distribution
of extreme events would be useful as well."





George Box:


"All models are wrong, but some are useful."





Anonym:


"All models are useful, but the strengths vary with each individual."