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• Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Mirrors

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• Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

  Dick Armey

  Beats, Policy, Demagoguery

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• The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession. Hence, the laptop has not been hacked, and there has been no leak of personal data such as unreleased music, photographs, designs, videos or any other personal files. The leak today of the unreleased track 'Awesome' was unrelated and completely coincidental.

  Malik Yusef

  Track, Design, Video

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• As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Numbers, Fundamentals

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• To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

  Drew Barrymore

  Men, Brain, Honest

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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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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• University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover truth, codify it through techniques of scholarship, and then teach it. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization not just download data into student skulls.

  Bruce Sterling

  Civilization, Skulls, Information

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• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Men, Two

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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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• Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Philosopher, Construction, Given

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Powerful, People, Scary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Air, Giving

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Years, Discovery

  "Freeman Dyson forecasts the future" by Freeman Dyson, www.newscientist.com. November 2006.

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• For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Summer, Teacher, Teaching

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• Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Found, Teach

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• The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creativity, Looks, Pieces

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• Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

  Nancy Pearcey

  Class, Ideas, People

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• Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

  Margaret Heffernan

  People, Leader, Boss

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• 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

  Running, Emotional, Skills

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• If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Writing, Mean

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• The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Phones, Space, Fit

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• Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Team

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on tech's diversity gap". Interview with Jessica Guynn, www.usatoday.com. August 12, 2014.

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