Any bit of nonsense can be computerized—astrology, biorhythms, the I Ching—but that doesn’t make the nonsense any more valid. - John Allen Paulos

A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidences is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but less flashy statistical evidence.

Correlation and causation are two quite different words, and the innumerate are more prone to mistake them than most.

Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune to computer simulation.