Data Points Quotes

#1. TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

Barry Ritholtz

#2. I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.

Astro Teller

#4. You're cramming a few chance data points into a story that has nothing to do with reality. You need to take a giant step back. Take a deep breath. You're way off the reservation." Nobody

Lev Grossman

#5. They need policies and visions that speak to their own interests and circumstances and not to be reduced to data points in some abstract political competition.

Ken Robinson

#6. People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

Dennis Crowley

#7. So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

Terence McKenna

#8. He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take shape, however erroneous it might be, the mind unconsciously favors any data points that support it and discounts any that don't.

John Verdon

#9. Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

Ben Bernanke

#10. Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

Jeffrey Fry

#11. When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

John McCarthy

#12. To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

Elizabeth Thornton

#13. One should act not with worry but with faith;
One should act willingly and selflessly,
Let life be, the way it is.

Gian Kumar

#14. The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

William Henry Bragg

#15. Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Curtis Jackson

#16. Fiction is a potent agent for good
in the hands of the good.

Suzanne Curchod

#17. The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

Will Rogers

#18. A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

#20. But nothing violates the rules of shutting up and not caring so much as flirting - except possibly for that enchantingly horrible moment when you act upon the flirting, that moment where you seal your heartbreak with a kiss.

John Green

#21. If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

Georg Henrik Von Wright

#22. Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

Cass R. Sunstein

#23. All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

Mark Twain