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“The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".”

“You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.”

Littles Cutting Information Evidence Shadow Chains Data Over You Pursued Starting Over Leaks

Author:Bruce Sterling

“Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.”

Writing Mind Given Fit Universal Originals Democratic Doctrine Innocent Advertising Data Ran Literacy Stamps Slogans Rubber Tabloids Editorials Platitudes Triviality Original Thought

Author:Edward Bernays

“Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.”

Law Natural Known Opinion Fields Depends Data Natural Law

Book:Handbook for Preclears

Source: Handbook for Preclears

“Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.”

Wells Understanding Existence Fit Increase Add Defined Data Complexity Layers Unnecessary Hypothesis Corresponding Existence Of God

Author:Sean M. Carroll

“The plural of anecdotes is not data”

Data Anecdotes

Author:Ben Goldacre

“Consider data without prejudice.”

Prejudice Data

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.”

Brain Bones Data Software Skulls Hardware Semiconductors

Author:Masayoshi Son

“There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy.”

Children Mother Too Much Policy Data Concrete Hiv Transmission

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.”

Ends Water Fields Horse Data Code Analysis Distribution Facilitate Regression

Author:John Cleese

“I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.”

“Data without generalization is just gossip.”

Data Gossip Generalization

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.”

Ifs World Believe Wells Information Computer Data Executives Outside World

Author:Peter Drucker

“The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.”

Should Years Long Facts Belief Cases Century Theory Prove Long Time Data Tested

Author:Richard E. Berendzen

“Data is not useful until it becomes information.”

Information Data

Author:Seth Godin

“Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.”

Kind Doe Problem Moving Conflict Scientist Agree Solve Data Resolution Disagree Insufficient Conflict Resolution

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.”

Ifs Facts Models Bounds Data Mislead

Author:James D. Watson

“Hate is love without enough data.”

Enough Hate Data

Author:Richard Bach

“I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.”

Thinking Important Data

Author:Mary Meeker

“If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.”

Ifs Firsts Succeed Data

Author:Randall Munroe

“90% of the world's data was created in the last two years”

World Years Two Lasts Data Two Years

Author:Marc Benioff

“If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Different Night Asks Technology Pressure Data Different Ways

Author:Martin Sorrell

“The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.”

Bigs Understanding Marketing Data

Author:Jay Baer

“All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.”

Ifs World Data Useless Measurement

Author:Amber Naslund

“The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.”

“Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Certain Wish Water Answers Views Mistake Scientist Data Mars Biggest Mistake

Author:Steve Squyres

“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”

Ifs Humans Happens Chance Brain Study Students Revolution Driven Technique Data Professors Engineers Reverse Rumor Medieval Student Success Human Brain Tailors Data Science

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data.”

Men Use Film Given Process Situation Information Involved Data Feds Elsewhere Feeding Spectators Indigenous Rip Imports Packaging

Author:Paul Ryan

“As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole.”

“Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.”

Needs Process Roles Failing Succeed Demand Deny Driven Data Odds Predictions

Book:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.”

Knows Men Age Form Know How Modern Materials Masters Mass Command Data Distinction Superiority Criteria Modern Age

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.”

Wells Persons Helping Use Process Teach Information Building College Keys Periods My Family Data Well Rounded Going To College

Author:Yolanda Adams

“The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.”

Knows Universe Know How Planets Majors Expectations Bigger Data Reverse Psychedelic Nobody Knows

Author:Terence McKenna

“Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.”

Needs Mind Firsts Persons I Can Process Understanding Christ Sin Information Involved Judgment Convinced Data Sinner Rejects Savior Exposed Reach Out Evangelism Unbelief God Exists

Author:R. C. Sproul

“We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.”

States Animal Materials Data Technological Transfers Reefs

Author:Terence McKenna

“Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.”

Way Long Behinds Steps Gone Acceptance Drug Medicine Property Data Long Way Beneficial

Author:Rick Doblin

“So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.”

Thinking World Ideas Numbers Models Educational Boundaries Data Enterprise Large Numbers Dissolving

Author:Terence McKenna

“And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.”

Felt Data Primaries

Author:Terence McKenna

“Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.”

People Should Humans Animal Mines Drug Concern Safety Data Humans And Animals

Author:Terence McKenna

“In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.”

Natural Effects Sticks Absence Data Artificial Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna

“There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.”

Sometimes Reason Strong Company Expectations Pressure Data Ethical Violation Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Stephen Covey

“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”

Failure Errors Intelligence Data Inadequate Inadequacy Great Science Data Science Mathematical Logic

Author:Charles Babbage

“I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.”

Thinking Country States United United States Effects Policy Data Alternatives Statistics Economist Beneficial Macroeconomics

Author:Ben Bernanke

“Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.”

Source: Syntactic Structures

“I don't think bulk data collection was an enormous factor here, because generally, that deals with overseas calls to the United States. But what bulk data collection did was make the process more efficient. So there were no silver bullets there.”

Thinking States Process United Deals United States Enormous Factors Data Collections Silver Efficient Bullets Data Collection Silver Bullets

Author:Michael Leiter

“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.”

Ifs Knows Stills Might Jobs Lasts Causes Records Happened Months Thousand Six Program Tragedy Congress Phones Terrorist Data France Paris Collections Senators Six Months Ongoing Folds Collecting

Author:Rand Paul

“In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.”

Order Secret Phones Valuable Access Data Agency Target Smartphones Databases Intelligence Agencies

Author:Matt Blaze

“Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.”

Mean Stills Facts Reality Process Secret Mere Invention Mediums Data Poetic Capture Delicate Catching Osmosis

Author:Salvador Dali

“My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.”

Problem Light Three Consciousness Objects Solutions Shadow Connected Pursuit Data Investigation Solution To A Problem

Author:Rene Magritte

“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)”

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