#data

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#craft #data #equipment #experimental #i

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business. ↗

— Al Smith

#american #blackberry #business #corporate #corporate america

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#grow #historical #investments #large #long-term

We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. We have seen a consistent pattern in which programs initiated with limited goals, such as preventing criminal violence or identifying foreign spies, were expanded to what witnesses characterized as "vacuum cleaners", sweeping in information about lawful activities of American citizens. The tendency of intelligence activities to expand beyond their initial scope is a theme which runs through every aspect of our investigative findings. Intelligence collection programs naturally generate ever-increasing demands for new data. And once intelligence has been collected, there are strong pressures to use it against the target. ↗

— Church Committee

#data #national-security #predictions #prescience #secrecy

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose. ↗

— Edward R. Tufte

#design #visual-display #design

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#deduction #information #mistake #theories #theory

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith. ↗

— Peter Watts

#comprehension #data-analysis #post-modern-technofaith #wisdom #faith

I'm sure, the highest capacity of storage device, will not enough to record all our stories; because, everytime with you is very valuable data ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#life #love #our-story #storage #time

Jack's marketing books had been a part of her life for so long that she had ceased to register their presence, simply moving them from the couch to the coffee table, from the bed to the nightstand. How to Sell Everything to Anybody. Eight Great Habits of CEOs. They all seemed to involve numbers, as if you could simply count yourself to riches, like following sheep to sleep. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#big-data #books #marketing #numbers #life

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#available #base #conclusion #data #give