Data Quotes - Page 21

• The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Analysis, Produce

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Intellectual, Chance

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• I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Ideas

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• The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Ideas, Perfect

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.39, Anchor

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• I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

  Kent Beck

  People, Important, Stories

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• Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Doe, Scientist, Cool Things

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

  Seth Godin

  Easy, Expertise

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• The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

  Otto Scharmer

  Keys, Our Society, Matter

  "From Big Data to Deep Data" by Otto Scharmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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• We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Hype, Age

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• You can only analyze the data you
  have. Be strategic about what to
  gather and how to store it

  Marie Curie

  Stores, Strategic

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• Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

  Bill Gates

  Data Collection, Differences, Profound

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• Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

  Kathy Calvin

  Girl, Children, Important

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• Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Religion, Alternatives, Sticks

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• If you think you are only strong if you can lift a certain number, whatever that number is, you will feel pretty weak most of the time. Strength is not a data point; it’s not a number. It’s an attitude.

  Pavel Tsatsouline

  Strong, Attitude, Thinking

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• System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations.

  Chris Shipley

  Clever, Real, Smart

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• Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Writing, Thinking, Way

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• Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

  Andrew Greeley

  Change, War, Mistake

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• We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

  Robert Glaser

  Periods, Rate

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• If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data, since these patients do not then meet the criteria...of the term 'treated'. The longer it takes for completion of the treatment,...the worse the error.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Dark, Errors, Age

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• The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data...gossip.

  Lewis Thomas

  Dark, Gossip, Age

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• There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

  Andrew Greeley

  Glowing, Support, Generations

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• Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

  John Poindexter

  Government, People, Would Be

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• The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

  Marc Benioff

  Powerful, Technology, Opportunity

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• Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Simple, Sight

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