Data Quotes - Page 26

• A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

  Bill Gosper

  Stupid, Language, Programming

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• The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Science, Two

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.456, Best Books on

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• Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Wind

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• There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

  Don Henley

  Politics, Facts

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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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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• We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

  David Cone

  Kind, Tendencies, Pitcher

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• We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

  David Cone

  Hands, Years, Games

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• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

  James S. Coleman

  Teenager, Eye, Giving

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• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Car, Needs

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Lying, Fall

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• I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Keys, Practice, Knowing

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• Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

  Grace Napolitano

  Judging, Leader, Political

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• I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

  John L. Phillips

  Unique, Thinking, Space

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• How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.

  Rand Paul

  Fall, Thinking, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive.

  Monte Lipman

  Mean, Artist, Office

  "Corner Office: Republic Records Honchos Monte & Avery Lipman Discuss Jennifer Lawrence's 'Hunger Games' Smash and Defend 'The Voice'". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. December 15, 2014.

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• Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data carefully researched, Sheryl Sandberg reminds women that they have to believe in themselves and reach for opportunities. More women than men may need that advice, but I'd bet that both genders would profit from this very well-done book

  Marjorie Scardino

  Believe, Book, Men

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• If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Numbers, Lasts, Confirmation

  Samuel Johnson (écrivain), Hester Lynch Piozzi (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.336

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• Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

  Djuna Barnes

  Age, Causes, Necks

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Independent, Opportunity

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• We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Numbers, Doubt

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.280, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

  Ronald Fisher

  Issues, Tasks, Body

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• Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Support, Climate, Research

  "Overlooked evidence - global warming may proceed faster than expected" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Years, Would Be

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.

  Maurice Allais

  Real, Judging, Assumption

  "L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 591), 1997.

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