Data Quotes - Page 40

• I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Dna, Ideas, People

  "No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

  David Chalmers

  Perception, World, Controversial

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• I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

  Dean Kamen

  Innovation, Way, Speed

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• Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Filled Out, People, Input

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• In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Progress, Branches, Facts

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.209, CUP Archive

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• The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

  James Hansen

  Understanding, Stuff, Excitement

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• If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

  Peter Lynch

  Next Week, Doe, Make Or Break

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

  Michael Polanyi

  Natural, Definite, Propositions

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• I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

  Burt Rutan

  Smell, Climate, Facts

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• There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

  Burt Rutan

  Trying, Littles, Easy

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• We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Ice, People

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.

  Lili Taylor

  Real, Body, Clock

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• I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Want Something, Risk

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• E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Internet Access, People, Email

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• More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

  Peter Norvig

  Clever, Algorithms, Beats

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