Datasets Quotes

#1. His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

Simon Kuper

#2. Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

David Willetts

#3. 'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

Sarah Parcak

#4. Archaeologists use datasets from NASA and commercial satellites, processing the information using various off-the-shelf computer programs. These datasets allow us to see beyond the visible part of the light spectrum into the near, middle, and far infrared.

Sarah Parcak

#5. Satellite datasets like WorldView can see objects as small as 1.5 feet in diameter. In 2014, WorldView-3 will be able to see objects a small as a foot.

Sarah Parcak

#6. Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Ben Goldacre

#7. Coffee could easily become lunch if one was not careful, and lunch could so comfortably slip into afternoon tea.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. One step of obedience can open your eyes. One step of obedience can reverse the curse. One step of obedience can begin a new chapter in your life!

Mark Batterson

#9. When he called her Anne, it was the first time she felt as if the name was truly hers.

Julia Quinn

#10. My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.

Isabel Allende

#11. The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.

Ransom Riggs

#12. How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

Justin Kirk

#14. Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

Charles Bukowski

#15. It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Aaliyah

#16. My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

Aaron Koblin

#17. Linda to protect her. Craig ignored him, and

Paul Finch

#18. Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.

Travis Thrasher

#19. I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#20. The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

Mike Bickle