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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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"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue." »Tom Robbins
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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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"War is based on deception." »Sun-Tzu
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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." »Albert Camus
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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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"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding." »General Douglas MacArthur
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"General principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard." »Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995
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"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation." »William Arthur Wood
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"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades." »Carmen Sylva
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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law" »Dick Clark
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"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." »Joyce
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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?" »Dick Clark
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"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." »Denis Watley
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"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month." »Wernher Von Braun
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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"All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." »Samuel Butler
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"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him." »Sun-Tzu
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"Harriet Do you actually like haggis Charlie No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time." »Franklin P. Adams
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"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." »Samuel Butler
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"Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery." »George Jean Nathan
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"Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal." »Deepak Chopra
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