Data Quotes - Page 2

• If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

  James L. Barksdale

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Looks

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

  Learned Hand

  Running, Past, Entrepreneur

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Wish, Medical

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

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• Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Organization, Missing

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• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  Ralph Nader

  Technology, People, Company

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• Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.

  Dale Carnegie

  Religious, Book, Rocks

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• Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Clay, Bricks, Cried

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.289

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• I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.

  Emily Giffin

  Love, Thinking, Wind

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Rafe grinned. "So we are dating?" "No. You have to pass the parental exam first. It'll take you awhile to compile the data. They'd like it in triplicate." I turned to my parents. "We have Kenji. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need." Dad chocked on his coffee.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, Coffee, Phones

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• War is ninety percent information.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Information, Ninety

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• Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

  Dan Heath

  Meaningful, Stories, Helping

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• I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

  Hal Varian

  Sexy, Jobs, Years

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• On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

  Nate Silver

  Average, Play, Numbers

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• Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

  Douglas Merrill

  Talent, Bigs, Bits

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• The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

  Max Levchin

  World, Way, Consumers

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• With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

  Douglas Merrill

  Real, Thought Provoking, Littles

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• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Humility, Reality

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

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• In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

  Vinod Khosla

  Future, Science, Years

  "Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined". techcrunch.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

  J. David Lewis-Williams

  Scientist, Theory, Hypothesis

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• A curious mind does not jump to conclusions but tests carefully and thoroughly. A curious mind will draw on all of life's experience to get to the big "uh huh." The curious cut the data by quintile, by segment, and by user.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Cutting, Mind, Doe

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

  Masayoshi Son

  World, Theory

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging of country statistics but rather we need to disaggregate the data to determine where the resources are most needed. In most cases, it's usually the reverse: those who are most marginalized - minorities and rural and remote communities - get the least attention and money.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Community, Needs

  Source: www.who.int

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• Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression and resignation and is not empowering. The information has to be presented in a way that's linked to the piece about encouraging students to think critically and creatively about how they might respond to injustice, and how young people have responded to injustice in the past.

  Michelle Alexander

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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