Data Quotes - Page 24

• Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

  John Allen Paulos

  Thinking

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.72, Basic Books

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• Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Learning, Problem, Arise

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

  George E. P. Box

  Encouragement, Jobs, Risk

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• Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Organization, Information

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.12, Routledge

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• Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Entrepreneur, Arena

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Choices, Entrepreneur

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Space, May

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Technology, Creating, Years

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• The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

  Franjo Tuđman

  War, Loss, Emotional

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• We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

  Maurice Levy

  Wisdom, Passion, Ideas

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• Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Art, Children

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• Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Eye, Thinking

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• But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.

  Julian Sanchez

  Secret, Adequate, Lasts

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• In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Years, Games, Voice

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• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Scientific Method, Way, Use

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

  Stephen Cambone

  Environmental, Environment, Application

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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• 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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• ... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.

  George Arthur Crump

  Tape, Reliability, Movement

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• You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Business, Real, Cowboy

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