Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Stephen Fienberg

Born: November 27, 1942
Died: December 14, 2016 (aged 74)
Bio: Stephen Elliott Fienberg was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Known for:
- A Survey of Statistical Network Models (2010)
- R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation (1980)