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"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity." »Norman R. Augustine
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"The primary purpose of the data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." »Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
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"The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell
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"The plural of anecdote is data." »Ben J. Wattenberg
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"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment." »Alvin Toffler
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"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann
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"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom." »Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
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