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• I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Want, Claims

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• It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

  John Coleman

  Long, Political, Environmental

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• The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

  Bill Lee

  Important, Bigs, Company

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• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Bobby Scott

  Kings, Children, School

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• Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

  Fred Wilson

  Decision, Driven, Should

  "Fred Wilson: My Harvard Business School Lecture" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

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• This is the time to be super aggressive

  Chris Lynch

  Aggressive

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

  Steve Crocker

  Technology, Voice, Challenges

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• I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

  George Coyne

  Believe, Use, Knowledge Of God

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

  Ken Thompson

  Different, Separation, Program

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• Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.

  Chris Lynch

  Clouds, Foundation, Today

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• Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.

  Larry Ellison

  Want, Tolerate, Company

  Interview with Richard Waters, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

  R. D. Laing

  Taken, Research, Speak

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Years, Ice

  "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2008.

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• All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

  Norwood Russell Hanson

  Theory, Observation

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• Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

  Richard Dawkins

  Unique, Forever, Political

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

  Brian Kernighan

  Weirdness, Easier, Regularity

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Anxiety, Black, Needs

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• People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Clouds, Two, People

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• My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.

  George Coyne

  Looks, Answers, Contrast

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Taken, Museums, Purpose

  Journal of the American Statistical Association On a Classification of the Problems of Statistical Inference Volume 37, Number 218, June 1942 (p. 173)

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• A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Powerful, People, Scary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Philosopher, Construction, Given

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put it on the hard drive. And if then if there is idle time, we go ahead and copy the remaining data to the hard drive. And what that means is after an hour or two, the game is on the hard drive, and you have access, you have dramatically quicker loading And you have the ability to do some truly high-speed streaming.

  Mark Cerny

  Mean, Games, Two

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