In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way. – Michael Shermer
I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. – Frank Abagnale
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. – Michael Behe
We’re rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data. – Erik Brynjolfsson
Even the best data security systems can’t protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information. – Melissa Bean
I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data. – Dorothy Denning
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 Ralph Augustine
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn’t all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. – Dorothy Denning
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data. – Douglas Rushkoff
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer’s cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage. – P. J. O’Rourke
Praxeology – economics – provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments. – Murray Rothbard
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one’s subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism – from the most stylistically ‘objective’ to the most brazenly opinionated – has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data. – Glenn Greenwald
‘Globalization’ has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it’s nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology – either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll. – Pico Iyer
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity. – Clive Thompson
Over the years, online, we’ve laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it’s been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments. – David McCandless
Smartphones can relay patients’ data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit. – Charles C. Mann
A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. – Clive Granger
Devices are getting smarter – your television, your car – and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That’s what we do. – Drew Houston
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected. – George Packer
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin. – Gijs de Vries
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite! – David Douglass
Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance. – Clive Granger
There are many types of economic data, but the type considered by Rob Engle and myself is know as time series. – Clive Granger
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. – Matt Mullenweg
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn’t see any. – Merton Miller
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it’s clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. – Michael Bennet
Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That’s how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism – and for this, they need us. – Douglas Rushkoff