Quotes and Sayings About Data
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I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
-- Aaron Koblin -
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
-- Abdus SalamSource : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific
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Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.
-- Adam Brown -
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
-- Adam SavageSource : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.
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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.
-- Al Smith -
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
-- Alan Perlis -
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
-- Alfred-Maurice de ZayasSource : "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.
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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.
-- Alison GopnikSource : "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.
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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.
-- Alton Tobey -
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
-- Alvin Toffler -
While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.
-- Amit Priyavadan Mehta -
On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.
-- Anatol RapoportSource : Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.5, University of Michigan Press
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The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.
-- Andre Michel Lwoff -
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
-- Andrea Barthwell -
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
-- Andrew Greeley -
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
-- Andrey Illarionov -
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A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.
-- Anna EshooSource : "New Bill Could Force Carriers To Better Define 4G Speeds" By Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2011.
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When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.
-- Anna Eshoo -
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
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Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?
-- Ariel Garten -
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.
-- Aristophanes -
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.
-- Arjun Makhijani -
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The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.
-- Arno Hintjens -
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
-- Arthur C. BrooksSource : Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.