Data Quotes

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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… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI… — Michele Bachmann
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.… — Roseanne Barr
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… — Roseanne Barr
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data.… — David Boies
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief… — Edward de Bono
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. — Thomas Carlyle
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. — Vinton Cerf
Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must… — Bob Dole
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect… — Carl von Clausewitz
Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952. — Jan Hatzius
Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when… — Everett C. Olson
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment in… — Kenneth Prewitt
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,… — Carl Sagan
You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the… — Jesse Bering
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to… — Nicholas Delbanco
There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that… — Jim Bush

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