Data Quotes - Page 17

• We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

  Peter Greenaway

  War, Book, Hero

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.

  Paul Krugman

  Truth, Thinking, Views

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• The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

  Jaron Lanier

  Ignorance, Irrelevance, Clouds

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Realization, Humans

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment and observation, They don't cherry pick data, They take a skeptical approach to what they do. And then scientists work together to get a consensus as to what should be believed And that generates very reliable knowledge and that reliable knowledge drives innovation

  Paul Nurse

  Innovation, Working Together, Way

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• The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mean, Past, Opposites

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1023, Random House

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• It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Self, People

  "Non-Ordinary States of Reality Through Vision Plants". Book by Terence McKenna, 1988.

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• Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.

  James G. Stavridis

  Military, Play, Keys

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• It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

  John Seely Brown

  Moon, Scratches, Lasts

  John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid (2017). “The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

  Ginni Rometty

  Bigs

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• Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Theory, Researchers

  "The Structuring of Organizations: A Synthesis of the Research". Book by Henry Mintzberg, 1979.

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• When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Risk, Doubt, Measurement

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• Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

  Spencer Wells

  Taken, People, Invasion

  Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.167, Random House

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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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• I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Generations, Taught

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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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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• Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done.
  Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Passion, People, Sound

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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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