• Quoting Humpty-Dumpty, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean," the speaker predicted that the day is passing when the word "actuary" can be used by anybody to mean whatever that person chooses it to mean.
• Those who apply the word "actuary" to themselves when they are not qualified to do so will find themselves a laughing stock, he said.

-- EJM

1973 - ACTUARIES AND THE ACADEMY (p1), Society of Actuaries - 8p