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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 plural of anecdote is data." »Ben J. Wattenberg
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"Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet." »Michael Brian Schiffer
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"New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology." »Robert E. Kahn
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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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"Be neither too remote nor too familiar." »Prince Charles
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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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"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen." »Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
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"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." »Fred Hoyle
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"Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!" »m
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door." »Tyron Edwards
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"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." »Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
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"Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand." »Confucius
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"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Sustainable prosperity and stability of the nations in the Middle East cannot be realized without re-engineering their state models to more open socioeconomic systems allowing equal access to national resources and opportunities instead of the current closed systems based on tribal, ethnic, and religious quotas" »Med Jones
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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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"Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?" »Hazlitt
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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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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble." »Peter S. Jennison
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