Given the generic definition of statistics, it is clear that astronomers have engaged in statistical analysis of some variety since astronomy first emerged as a science. However, from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twenty-first the two disciplines have been somewhat estranged – there was no formal relationship between the two. This has now changed, as is evidenced by the recent creation of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA), the ISI astrostatistics committee, astrostatistics working groups authorized by the IAU and AAS, and this Symposium. The challenge for us to come is in establishing how statisticians and astronomers relate in developing the discipline of astrostatistics. I shall propose a direction for how the discipline can progress in both the short term and well as for future generations of astrostatisticians.