Data Quotes - Page 20

• On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Driven

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• A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Dashboards

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• Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

  Rob Pike

  Self, Algorithms, Structure

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• It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

  Guido van Rossum

  Mistake, Should Have, Starting Over

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• Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly

  Frederick Mosteller

  Science, Voice, Analysis

  Frederick Mosteller, Stephen E. Fienberg, Robert E. K. Rourke (2013). “Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

  Ariel Garten

  People, Imagine, Made

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• I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different than someone sitting at the computer clicking through a bunch of different books or CDs-until I actually looked at the data, and it turned out that the patterns were remarkably similar.

  Peter Fader

  Book, Cds, Patterns

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• Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

  John Allen Paulos

  Thinking

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.72, Basic Books

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• Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Learning, Problem, Arise

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Risk, Doubt, Measurement

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• Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

  George E. P. Box

  Encouragement, Jobs, Risk

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• Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Organization, Information

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.12, Routledge

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• Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Entrepreneur, Arena

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Choices, Entrepreneur

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Space, May

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Technology, Creating, Years

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• The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

  Franjo Tuđman

  War, Loss, Emotional

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• We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

  Maurice Levy

  Wisdom, Passion, Ideas

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• Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Art, Children

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• Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Eye, Thinking

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• But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.

  Julian Sanchez

  Secret, Adequate, Lasts

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• In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Years, Games, Voice

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• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Scientific Method, Way, Use

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

  Stephen Cambone

  Environmental, Environment, Application

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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