What are some good phrases to dismiss the importance of bean counting?

“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Mark Twain

“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics” – Heinrich Heine

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” – Josef Stalin

“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” – George W. Bush

There is this familiar quote from Albert Einstein:
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Just calling someone a bean counter is usually pretty dismissive.

I have always loved this one by Robert Frost:
The Hardship of Accounting

Never ask of money spent.
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.

@LostInParadise‘s Einstein quote, beat me to it.
Also: jackass-with-a-spreadsheet or Selective wilful ignorance.
and: “Just another jerk, taking pride in his work” (Timbuk3)

All of these refer to the consequences of externalizing costs, leaving things off the analysis that might lean toward a different conclusion.
I don’t think red-shift or Heisenberg are relevant in these cases.