Data Quotes

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If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal… — Robert Pozen
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and… — Aaron Koblin
We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of… — Jenny Beck
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data. — Henry M. Morris
The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference. — Carly Fiorina
It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses… — Gary Zukav
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and… — John Dewey
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought. — Clifford Stoll
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is… — Bruce Schneier
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -… — Clay Shirky
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store… — Sergey Brin
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. — Clifford Stoll
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research. — Henry Mintzberg

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