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Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing… — Tom Stoppard
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… — Robert M. Pirsig
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data… — Robert Anton Wilson
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the… — Albert Einstein
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more… — Jonathan Safran Foer
No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked,… — Christopher Moore
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings… — Jonathan Franzen
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that… — David Foster Wallace
If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data. — William S. Burroughs
I say â€˜Uhmm...â€™ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says itâ€™s a CPU word. It means youâ€™re assembling data in your head… — Douglas Coupland
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itselfâ€”not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an… — Michael Behe
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a… — William S. Burroughs
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable… — Jonathan Franzen
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what… — Paul Hawken
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then theyâ€™ll feel theyâ€™re… — Ray Bradbury

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