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• Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

  Nate Silver

  Data Science, Scientist, Statistician

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Five Senses, Needs

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

  Sam Altman

  Successful, Years, Giving

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• ... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Past, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 22, 2014

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• Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Block, Moving, Communication

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small difficulty. For these theories were not adequate unless they also conceived certain equalizing circles, which made the planet appear to move at all times with uniform velocity neither on its deferent sphere nor about its own epicycle's center.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moving, Science, Circles

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• Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

  Robert Darnton

  Digital, Materials, Printed

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• What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

  Avi Rubin

  Important, Protection, Used

  "'Off-the-shelf' hack breaks wireless encryption" by Daniel Sieberg, www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.

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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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• Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.

  Jay Abraham

  Writing, Giving, Everyday

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• I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

  George Coyne

  Believe, Use, Knowledge Of God

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

  Eric Topol

  Information, Consumers, Handle

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Powerful, Physics, Predictions

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.

  Chris Lynch

  Clouds, Foundation, Today

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Media, Years

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