Graphs Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
— Charlie Munger
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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of…
— Eric Hoffer
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Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
— David Mamet
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Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social…
— Sean Parker
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One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this…
— Erik Qualman
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I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary…
— Burt Rutan
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The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not…
— Roger Fry
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And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't…
— Harsha Bhogle
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I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph…
— Jonathan Nolan
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
— Martha Graham
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I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
— Brian Eno
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If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social…
— Ashton Kutcher
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they…
— Marshall McLuhan
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I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science…
— Liam Neeson
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Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the…
— Bing Gordon
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The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or…
— Daniel Hannan
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What do these graphs look like?! -awkward silence- uh.. Lines?
— Hannah Bowns
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