Data Quotes - Page 30

• Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them.

  Judith Rich Harris

  Eye, Thinking, Order

  Judith Rich Harris (2009). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

  Alton Tobey

  Artist, Reality, Special

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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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• Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Method, Processing

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Association, Ends, Correlation

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Theory of International Politics”, p.4, Waveland Press

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• We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.

  Laurel Clark

  Team, Training, Glitches

  "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.

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• We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

  Randall Terry

  Country, Moving, Pro Life

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• I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

  Laurel Clark

  Looks, Might, Kind

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• We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

  Chris Mooney

  Pain, Fighting, Predator

  "The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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• Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

  Thomas H. Davenport

  Bigs, Company

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• One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

  Steven McDonnell

  Challenges, Use, Bigs

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• Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

  Shirley M. Tilghman

  Memorable, Science, Decision

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Decision

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• This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

  Frederick Seitz

  Country, Opportunity, Technology

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• Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Understanding, Doe

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth.

  Michael Crichton

  Issues, Blue, Views

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• I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.

  Rick Perry

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rick Perry accuses scientists of 'manipulating' climate data". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

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• The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Sides, Global Warming, Switching

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• Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Law, Scientific Method

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• As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Mean, Sacrifice

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• We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

  danah boyd

  Forget, Obsessed, Bigs

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• The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Decision, Purpose, Action

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• The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Decision, Intellectual

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• More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Moving, Book

  "US public library borrowing requirements rise again" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• Data is great, but strategy is better

  Steven Sinofsky

  Business, Management, Strategy

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