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“When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.”

Should Use Share Secure Data Transparent

Author:Anna Eshoo

“A data structure is just a stupid programming language.”

Language Stupid Structure Data Programming Programmers Programming Languages Data Structures

Author:Bill Gosper

“The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.”

Should May Two Country Science Nations Results Objects Elements Instruments Accomplish Chiefs Data Statistics Accurate Folds Exhibits Census

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1

“Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.”

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Author:John Updike

“There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.”

Facts Politics Data

Author:Don Henley

“You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.”

“We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.”

Wells Kind Written Regard Tendencies Data Reports Amazed Eighty Pitcher Scouting

Author:David Cone

“We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.”

Years Hands Games Individual Data Discarded

Author:David Cone

“It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.”

Giving Eye Interest Study Clear Achievement Importance Focused Data Teenager Minors Prestige Scholastics

Author:James S. Coleman

“Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.”

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Author:J. D. Hayworth

“I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.”

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Author:Jonathan Kellerman