Pulp Fictions

“Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.”

– John S. Mill, 1806 – 1873

“While writing my book [Stochastic Processes] I had an argument with Feller. He asserted that everyone said ‘random variable’ and I asserted that everyone said ‘chance variable’. We obviously had to use the same name in our books, so we decided the issue by a stochastic procedure. That is, we tossed for it and he won.”

– Joseph L. Doob, 1910 – 2004