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| A biologist, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist are on a photo-safari in Africa. As they're driving along the savannah in their jeep, they stop and scout the horizon with their binoculars. The biologist: "Look! A herd of zebras! And there's a white zebra! Fantastic! We'll be famous!" The statistician: "Hey, calm down, it's not significant. We only know there's one white zebra." The mathematician: "Actually, we only know there exists a zebra, which is white on one side." The computer scientist : "Oh, no! A special case!" | |
| McEwan's Rule of Relative Importance: When traveling with a herd of elephants, don't be the first to lie down and rest. | |
| O imitators, you slavish herd! -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) | |
| Heard that the next Space Shuttle is supposed to carry several Guernsey cows? It's gonna be the herd shot 'round the world. | |
| The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers. | |
