Data Quotes - Page 7

• Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors, Decision, Needs

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• Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

  Ben Parr

  Pain, Confused, Games

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• There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

  Ben Parr

  Internet

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• Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

  Ben Parr

  Phones, Two, Apples

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• Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

  Ben Parr

  Beautiful, Google, Pages

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• And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Animal, Environment

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• Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Five Senses, Needs

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• Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

  Frederick Seitz

  Climate, Use, Research

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• We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

  Scott McNealy

  Distance, Believe, Moving

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• I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

  Nancy Lublin

  Chinese, Dallas, Use

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• On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Reviews, Apps, Mapping

  "Yelp CEO talks mobile growth, global expansion... and doner kebabs". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Nice, Phones, Killers

  "Yelp CEO talks mobile growth, global expansion... and doner kebabs". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2013.

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• The approach we try to take here [Morris's Institute for Creation Research] is to assume that the word of God is the word of God and that God is able to say what He means and means what He says, and that's in the Bible and that is our basis. And then we interpret the scientific data within that framework.

  Henry M. Morris

  Mean, Scary, Trying

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• Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

  Frances Wright

  Knowledge, Science, Air

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

  William James

  Block, Thoughtful, Thinking

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

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• Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.

  John Dewey

  Talking, Justice, Language

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.250, SIU Press

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• We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Entering, Use, World

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• Yet the companions of the Muses
  will keep their collective nose in my books
  And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Historical, Tunes

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Gingrich: CBO a 'reactionary socialist institution'" By Charles Riley, money.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Moving, Science

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• Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

  Lawrence Shepp

  Science, Ideas, Community

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• Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

  Thomas Friedman

  Change, Ipads, Clouds

  "It’s a 401(k) World" by Thomas Friedman, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

  Anita Renfroe

  Add, Satisfaction, Great Marriage

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• English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Simple, Native Language, Identity

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems.

  Honor Harger

  Ideas, Fascination, Sound

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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