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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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"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages." »Anonymous
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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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"The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
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"The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness." »Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.
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"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." »Dudley Moore
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." »Phyllis George
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"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money." »Franklin P Jones
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"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw
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"This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended." »Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
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"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The space shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills." »Dana Rohrabacher
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"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." »H.L. Mencken
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"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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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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"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." »Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
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"I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding." »Jacques LeBlanc
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"The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior" »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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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