Data Quotes - Page 11

• One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, People, Want

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• A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Battle, Cry, Conspiracy

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

  William James

  Block, Mind, Stones

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• More data is not always the answer.

  Alan Hirsch

  Answers

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Order, Facts

  "The Wellspring of Reality". "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking" by Buckminster Fuller, 1975.

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• Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

  David Shields

  Believe, Writing, Matter

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.115, Vintage

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• The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Long, Support, Historical

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Successful, Vegetarian Diet

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Creative, Way

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Thinking, Global Warming

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• While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

  Henry Mintzberg

  May, Intellect, Hard

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• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Animal, Men

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Cutting, Starting Over, Over You

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• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  Edward Bernays

  Writing, Mind, Doctrine

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• Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Law, Fields, Opinion

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.287, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Understanding, Add, Layers

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• The plural of anecdotes is not data

  Ben Goldacre

  Anecdotes

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• Consider data without prejudice.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Prejudice

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• I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

  Masayoshi Son

  Skulls, Brain, Bones

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• There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Mother, Children, Hiv

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• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

  John Cleese

  Horse, Water, Fields

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• I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

  Jeb Bush

  Football, Moving, Thinking

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• Data without generalization is just gossip.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Gossip, Generalization

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, World, Information

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• The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Years, Long, Facts

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