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“How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.”

Made Quality Computer Models Tasks Agree Climate Data Global Warming Modeling

Author:Don Aitkin

“Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.”

“We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet. We have 5 years to change the energy system, or have it changed”

Years Looks Energy Lines Changed Planets Degrees Consequence Increase Climate Change Track Data Trends Relative Temperature

Author:Fatih Birol

“Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.”

Ears Data Narrative Coming Out

Author:Roy Sekoff

“Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.”

Trying Mean Enough Moving Sides Situation Baseball Balls Blind Photograph Patterns Flight Data Bats Sideways Gauges Collide Blind Side

Author:Marcus Sakey

“The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.”

Shows Mother Religion Common New York Broken Higher Available Divorce Data Secular Belts Percentages Breakdown Massachusetts Oklahoma Arkansas Broken Family

Author:Joe Conason

“The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we need to worry about earnings. What gave us a really strong move in stock prices from late May until about two weeks ago was this heightened optimism that maybe interest rates are at that high. That gave you a relief rally. Now reality is setting in - if we've seen the worst on interest rates then we've seen the best on earnings.”

Ifs Needs May Two Reality Moving Strong Interest Worry Week Economic Worst Keys Late Optimism Rate Setting Settings Data Relief Earning Two Weeks Interest Rate Stock Price

Author:Douglas Cliggott

“We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.”

People Want Reality Social Policy Scientist Data

Author:Orlando Rodriguez

“I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.”

Ifs Writing Reality Interest Company Cases Issues Conflict Perception Trials Data Articles Pharmaceutical Clinicals Conflict Of Interest Pharmaceutical Companies Clinical Trials

Author:Catherine D. DeAngelis

“Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.”

Reality Lasts Past Strong Growth Months Data Quarters Slips Very Strong Fourth Pointing Holding On Pessimistic Viewpoints Fingernails Knuckles Fourth Quarter

Author:Brian Wesbury

“The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.”

“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.”

Ideas Problem Understanding Design Communication Higher Easier Essentials Function Complexes Profession Data Visuals Our Society Retention Complex Problems Auditory

Author:Will Burtin

“Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.”

People Trying Bigs Social Security Media Areas Concern Social Media Data Breach

Author:Sandy Carter

“I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me”

Bits Historical Data Odd Analytics Seo Keywords

Author:Douglas Bader

“There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.”

People World Way Life Body Differences Information Computer Library Bones Access Data Good Life Good Work

Author:Wendell Berry

“TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.”

Real Used Issues Data Privacy Being Real Users Tias

Author:John Poindexter

“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.”

Data Autobiography Register Private Things

Book:The Uses of Literature

Source: The Uses of Literature

“Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.”

“The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.”

Ifs Doe Courses Following Statements Data Broads Troops Vague Cautious Traveller Sweeping Be Cautious Generalisation

Author:George Saunders

“Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.”

Knows Age Information Welcome Data Information Age

Author:Roger Kimball

“Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.”

Want Should Firsts Littles Order Asks Too Much Models Understood First Time Data Right Questions

Author:Mike Michaud

“Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of the digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.”

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