“ To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ To write it, it took three months; to conceive it — three minutes; to collect the data in it — all my life. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
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“ We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. ”
- Reed Hundt- Copy
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“ What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data. ”
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn- Copy
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“ The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. ”
- Sherlock Holmes- Copy
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“ To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
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“ If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. ”
- Velilind’s Laws of Experimentation- Copy
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“ Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. ”
- Cliff Stoll and Gary Schubert- Copy
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“ Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ”
- John Naisbitt- Copy
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“ The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority… ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities — that's training or instruction — but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed… To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life… One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant… ”
- Fortran manual for Xerox Computers- Copy
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