Analytics Quotes

• Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Stubborn

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

  Carly Fiorina

  Data Collection, Goal, Thought Provoking

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• War is ninety percent information.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Data, Information

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• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Knowledge, Data

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

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• Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.

  Michael Porter

  Goal, Worthless

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• Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

  Albert Einstein

  Want, Nickelback, Knows

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• The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

  Arthur Nielsen

  Light, Data, Darkness

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Math, Science

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

  James L. Barksdale

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Looks

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

  John Tukey

  Data, Boring, My Favorite

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• Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

  Aldous Huxley

  Dedicated

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• A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Focus And Concentration, Data, Essentials

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• I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

  Hal Varian

  Sexy, Jobs, Years

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• When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Imagination, Trying

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

  Edward Tufte

  Numbers, Wrong Number, Statistics

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Use, Records

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• In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.

  Martha Minow

  Fall, Race, Names

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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Science, Data

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• Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

  Craig Mundie

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Raw Materials

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• For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.

  Andrew Hogue

  Ice Cream, Two, Degrees

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• It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Philosophy, Long, Nihilism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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