Data Representation Quotes

#1. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

Philip Sidney

#2. A guy can love a guy without being the kind of guy that loves guys.

Samuel A. Malone

#3. The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#4. I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do a three-month run on 'Chicago.' Something like that would be awesome. So, I'm putting it out there.

Rochelle Aytes

#5. Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins ...

Clement Greenberg

#6. I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

Mary Gaitskill

#7. I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Romola Garai

#8. My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

Donald Knuth

#9. It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

Chaim Potok

#10. No data are excluded on subjective or arbitrary grounds. No one piece of data is more highly valued than another. The consequences of this policy have to be accepted, even if they prove awkward.

Jennifer K. McArthur

#11. Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

Edward R. Tufte

#12. Friend? Yeah, he didn't plan to be in that category for long. Ruby's

Katie Reus

#13. Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

Adam Ostrow