“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.” FormSecretRecordsTreeEvolutionEvidenceTradeExtremesDataBranchesReasonablePersistFossilsTextbooksInferenceRarityPaleontologyCreation ScienceCreation And Evolution Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.” SecretClearFiguresData Author:Mabel Seeley
“Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.” LittlesAmericaSecretQualityDataCorporateDirtyCorporate America Author:Paul Gillin
“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.” WayWantGivingWritingHumansI CanEnoughStoriesMy OwnSecretMoralAirCostCuriosityLove StoryDataInfrastructureScratchesThin Air Author:James Ellroy
“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.” OrderSecretPhonesValuableAccessDataAgencyTargetSmartphonesDatabasesIntelligence 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.” MeanStillsFactsRealityProcessSecretMereInventionMediumsDataPoeticCaptureDelicateCatchingOsmosis Author:Salvador Dali