Datum Quotes - page 5

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government. (Arthur C. Brooks)
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. View quote
Ben Goldacre
The plural of anecdotes is not data. View quote
Ben Goldacre
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it. View quote
Ben Goldacre
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions. View quote
Dan Ariely
When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
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. View quote
Jonathan Kellerman
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. View quote
George Saunders
Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough. (Douglas Rushkoff)
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health. View quote
Emily Oster
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways. View quote
Alison Gopnik
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late. View quote
Clayton Christensen
Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments. View quote
Luke Harding
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. View quote
Vint Cerf
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. (David Chalmers)
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. View quote
Steven D. Levitt
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. View quote
Clifford Stoll
Above all else show the data. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. View quote
Andrew Greeley