Datum Quotes

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. (Edward de Bono)
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. View quote
Learned Hand
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. View quote
Charles Babbage
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline. View quote
Maurice Allais
Experts often possess more data than judgment. View quote
Colin Powell
The more data banks record about us, the less we exist. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
The past is relevant only as data. View quote
Richard Morgan
Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination. (Vernon L. Smith)
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Data don't generate theory – only researchers do that. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism. View quote
Julian Assange
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. View quote
John Tukey
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
What, exactly, is the internet Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. View quote
Dave Barry
If you want data to survive, carve it in rock. View quote
Jack McDevitt
The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation. You and I are streaming data engines. (Jeff Hawkins)
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. View quote
Geoffrey West
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. View quote
Robert J. Shiller