Data Quotes - Page 8

• Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

  Robert Darnton

  Digital, Materials, Printed

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• Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Block, Moving, Communication

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that's probably one of the reasons I don't like the idea of prolific.

  Jackie French

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Jackie French, author". Sunday Profile with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

  Jackie French

  Pieces, World, Jigsaw

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Powerful, Physics, Predictions

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

  DJ Spooky

  World, Action, Ripple

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• What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

  Avi Rubin

  Important, Protection, Used

  "'Off-the-shelf' hack breaks wireless encryption" by Daniel Sieberg, www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.

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• ... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Past, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 22, 2014

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• The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.

  J. L. Austin

  Men, Expression, Play

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• There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

  Ida Tarbell

  Medicine, Figures, Sentiments

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1915). “The Ways of Woman”

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• Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

  Eric Topol

  Information, Consumers, Handle

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• Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

  John Thorn

  Hands, Experts, Stories

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mean, People, Decision

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• We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

  Sam Altman

  Successful, Years, Giving

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• If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

  Emmett Shear

  Easy, Ifs

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• Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

  Reid Hoffman

  Moving, Vision, Building

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• In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Recovery, Sleep, Competition

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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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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• 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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• Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of lithium in the world.

  Evo Morales

  Beautiful, Bolivia, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Important, Statistics

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small difficulty. For these theories were not adequate unless they also conceived certain equalizing circles, which made the planet appear to move at all times with uniform velocity neither on its deferent sphere nor about its own epicycle's center.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moving, Science, Circles

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• Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Science, Doubt

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• Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

  David Grossman

  Cancer, Media, Today

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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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