Data Quotes - Page 18

• A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Communication, Home, Ideas

  Jeff Greenfield (2011). “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n”, p.36, Penguin

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• Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

  Dee Hock

  Facts, Judgment, Bookkeeping

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.236, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.

  Jim Sterne

  People, Marketing, Want

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• Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

  Ian Lurie

  Writing, Heaven, Marketing

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• The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.

  Kimberley Walsh

  Marketing, Roi, Lovers

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• Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Country, Smart, Moving

  "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" by Jane E. Brody, www.nytimes.com. May 08, 1990.

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• 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

  Marijuana, Medicine, Would Be

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• With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.

  Walter Willett

  Inspirational, Strong, Cancer

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• If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Body, Might, Energy

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• Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

  Jason Dufner

  Golf, Swings, Games

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• One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

  Vinod Khosla

  Lessons, Best Things, Knows

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• If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data.  If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

  Paul Hawken

  Heart, Optimistic, People

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.12, Penguin

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• No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

  Vera Rubin

  Problem

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• Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Words Of Wisdom, Perception

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• Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

  Paul Saffo

  Butterfly, Jewels, Ideas

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• But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data—something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.

  Silas House

  Hate, Heart, Eye

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• I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Information, Internet, Behavior

  "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

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• When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

  Ward Cunningham

  Way, Saying No, Managers

  Talk at MS Research, November 2004.

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• When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive

  Felix Baumgartner

  Humble, Thinking, Records

  "Austrian daredevil breaks sound barrier jumping from space". "7.30" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2012.

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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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creative, Program, Century

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Reality, People

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• It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  God, Spiritual, Light

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• Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

  Tony Fadell

  Years, Design, Next

  "Within ten years "everything will have data in it", says Nest CEO". Interview with Dan Howarth, www.dezeen.com. May 26, 2014.

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• Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

  Linda Chavez

  President, Literature, Unions

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• 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

  Government, People, Environmental

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