Data Quote by Samuel Karlin Download Open image “The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.” — Samuel Karlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Data Fit Models Purpose Science Statistics
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data. — Phillip Johnson-Laird Copy Share Image
Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data. — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable. — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions. — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image