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Quote by Edward Tufte

“If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.”

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Edward Tufte is a renowned statistician known for his contributions to information design, data visualization, and visual presentation. His work has had a profound impact on modern data presentation and communication. more

“The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.”

Firsts Government Forget Wonderful Figures Please Roots Raises Add Instance Damn Statistics Never Forget Village Analytics Cubes Diagrams

Author:Josiah Stamp

“Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.”

Source: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio

“At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.”

Ifs Goal Security Internet Safe Safety Bottom Critical Consumers Privacy Preservation Elimination Credible

Author:Cliff Stearns

“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.”

People Want States United United States Security Information Computer Stealing Privacy Hacks Take Control

Author:Darrell Issa

“Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.”

Ifs Security Information Medical Privacy Collectives Fallacy

Author:Craig Venter

“Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.”