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• Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.

  Harald Haas

  Motivation, Smart, Inspiration

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• The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Order, Giving, Statistics

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• Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

  Roseanne Barr

  Media, Order, Two

  "This Is Woman’s Time!" by Roseanne Barr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.

  Keith Ellison

  Thinking, Ideas, Gone

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Data Collection, Blind, Deaf

  "The Business Book". Book, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2014.

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

  Peter Diamandis

  Perception, Brain, Too Much

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• We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

  Larry Page

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Sound

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• Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

  Mark Getty

  Data Collection, Oil, Intellectual

  "@Thinking Digital: Don't fight pirates, copy them" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2009.

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• If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

  William S. Burroughs

  Viewpoints, Ifs

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• An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspiring, Should Have, Economic

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• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Statistics, Grammar

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• [Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

  Helen Fisher

  Thinking, Brain, Pieces

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• The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Age, Modern

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• 90% of the world's data was created in the last two years

  Marc Benioff

  Years, Two, World

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• I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Messages, Facts

  "This Is Woman’s Time!" by Roseanne Barr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Lying, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

  James D. Watson

  Facts, Models, Ifs

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• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

  Ed Markey

  Analysis, Matter, Serious

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• An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Intelligent, Errors, Understanding

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• Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.

  Daniel Suarez

  Phones, Movement, Next

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

  Tamara Keith

  Thinking, Doe, Daggers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.

  Susan Davis

  Oil, Cyber Attacks, Years

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". Interview with Robert Siegel, wuwm.com. December 21, 2015.

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