Data Quotes - Page 38

• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Eggs, Firsts

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• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

  James Lovelock

  Science, Games, Temptation

  James Lovelock (1987). “Gaia: a new look at life on earth”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

  Robert J. Shiller

  People, Challenges, Use

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• There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

  John Tukey

  Pie, Type

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Pirate, Way

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

  George V

  Artist, Dilettantes

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• Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

  Melissa Bean

  Security Systems, Information, Selling

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• Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Way, Predictions, Should

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Important, Facts, Emphasis

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• The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

  Steven Levitt

  Sex, Lying, Chicago

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• I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Order, People

  Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

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• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  John W. Thompson

  Integrity, Moving, Important

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

  John W. Thompson

  Art, Automation, Information

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

  Laszlo Bock

  People, Giving, Perfect

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• The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Tree, Secret, Records

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• The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Errors, Facts

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged”, p.156

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• In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.

  Stephen Elop

  Strong, Thinking, Play

  "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

  Bill Joy

  Running, Thinking, Java

  "Creating One Huge Computer". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 15, 1998.

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• Real anatomy exists in three dimensions, so any time you can view anatomical data in 3D, you'll have a much more accurate picture of the subject, ... Even multiple two-dimensional CT slices can never allow you to understand a subject's dental condition as quickly or as accurately as a quality 3D visualization.

  Paul Brown

  Real, Views, Two

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• Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

  Tim Ferriss

  Men, Excess, Information

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• There is the finest line between data and evidence.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Lines, Finest, Ability

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• There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.

  Richard Jackson

  Losing Control, Practice, Needs

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• EMA research evidences strong and growing interest in leveraging log data across multiple infrastructure planning and operations management use cases. But to fully realize the potential complementary value of unstructured log data, it must be aligned and integrated with structured management data, and manual analysis must be replaced with automated approaches. By combining the RapidEngines capabilities with its existing solution, SevOne will be the first to truly integrate log data into an enterprise-class, carrier-grade performance management system.

  Jim Frey

  Strong, Class, Research

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• IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.

  Dan Jones

  Size, Protection, Integrating

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• Master data management is a discipline that goes hand in hand with information governance. Forward-thinking organizations are instituting processes to gain agreement on roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures surrounding the maintenance of a single view of the entities needed for conducting business and measuring its performance,.

  Henry M. Morris

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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