"I wanted to separate data from programs, because……" — Ken Thompson

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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… — 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… — Michele Bachmann
• Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from… — Roseanne Barr
• I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and… — Roseanne Barr
• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide… — David Boies
• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you… — 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.… — Bob Dole
• The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere… — Carl von Clausewitz
• Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952. — Unknown Author

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