“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.” ChildrenBookDreamValuesLinesResultsQualityInformationComfortableComputerLowsClaimsLibraryBudgetsSuspectsScholarAddictLibrarianHallucinationsInsidersAdeptAutomation Author:Clifford Stoll
“The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.” ClearHonestInformationClaimsMarketingDataAccurate Book:Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation
“Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.” WellsSaidShowsTodayInformationClaimsPressesMinistersConferencesPress Conferences Author:David Letterman
“I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region.” MeanWarSituationInformationWillingClaimsStartingIraqRegionsMisunderstanding Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.” BigsAmericaCompanyTechnologyInformationOfficeAccountsClaimsDollarsBoxesIncomeApplesAddressesOwnersIrelandMicrosoftInformation Technology Author:Michael Hudson
“This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that to make his claim that information is fake news. And there are people who think 'I guess we should believe the President when he says it's fake news.'” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveHumansUseEasyPresidentExistenceInformationTrumpNewsClaimsErasFakeHuman Existence Author:Greg Graffin
“Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.” ThinkingKnowsBigsSexKnow HowInformationClaimsWittyDataAnalysisThought ProvokingProvokingTeenageAnalyticsDatabasesToo Much InformationAnalysing Author:Dan Ariely