There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data av….
What can go wrong will go wrong..
When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along wit….
There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy..
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. ….
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable t….
Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret..
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can ….
No observational problem will not be solved by more data..
I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working ….
Above all else show the data..
Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested..
With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news fr….
Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage you….
You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.
scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves..
Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what th….
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to infor….
Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance….
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be cont….
We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with ….