Data Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Scientist

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Surveys show that surveys never lie.

  Natalie Angier

  Lying, Surveys, Never Lie

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Men, Goal, Desire

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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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• There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Lying, Faces, Your Face

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• [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

  Fay Faron

  Home, Night, Doors

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• I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding ones subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically objective to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Real, Thinking, Facts

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• And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Years, Lasts

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• The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

  Emo Philips

  Love You, Home, Sleep

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you're just alarmists and so on and they can massage the data so it fits them.

  Richard Lewontin

  People, World, Bread

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

  Michael Dell

  Example, Information, Action

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.

  Michael Dell

  Medicine, Hydration, Blood

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Tests, Failing

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Mind, Enquiry

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Answers, Interviews

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• The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.

  Arno Hintjens

  Book, Goes On, Bangs

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• War is 90% information.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Information

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• A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

  Charles Fort

  Mean, Forts, Procession

  Charles Fort (2013). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Asking Questions, Information

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.

  Peter Sagal

  Fashionable, Ifs

  "Limericks". "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, kdlg.org. May 2, 2015.

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• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  Tan Le

  Understanding, Brain, Research

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• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  Tan Le

  Alzheimer's, One Day, Needs

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• When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

  Elif Batuman

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "The Rumpus Interview With Elif Batuman". Interview with Sean Carman, therumpus.net. April 25, 2012.

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