DJ Patil quotes

“A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.”
-- DJ Patil

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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.”
-- DJ Patil

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“There are some times, when you can predict weather well for the next 15 days. Other times, you can only really forecast a couple of days. Sometimes you can't predict the next two hours.”
-- DJ Patil

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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.”
-- DJ Patil

Source : DJ Patil (2011). “Building Data Science Teams”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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“There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”

“I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.”

“Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.”

“Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.”

“Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.”

Source : "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.

“It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.”

“At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

“What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends”

“I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.”

“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.”