“ The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information. ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
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“ Either it's going to be a great dunk or a great block,... I think statistics work in my favor. I don't like getting dunked on. ”
- Alonzo Mourning- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. ”
- Reed Hundt- Copy
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“ When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. ”
- Horace Rutledge- Copy
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“ SAS' metadata management gives us a lot of control and security over our clients' data. We have employees distributed all over the country. With SAS, we can access data on multiple databases and platforms and we work directly off the server, so we are all using a single, consistent view of the information. ”
- Mike Todd- Copy
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“ Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. ”
- Cliff Stoll and Gary Schubert- Copy
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“ You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
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“ If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. ”
- Velilind’s Laws of Experimentation- Copy
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“ Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. ”
- Sherlock Holmes- Copy
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“ To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ To write it, it took three months; to conceive it — three minutes; to collect the data in it — all my life. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
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“ If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
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“ What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data. ”
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn- Copy
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“ The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
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“ There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone-the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ”
- George Gallup- Copy
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