“No data is preferable to poor data.”
Robert L. Forward book Dragon's Egg
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 2, “Pulsar” Section 3 (p. 26)
“Data fata secutus.”
Following what is decreed by fate.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382
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“Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Source: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) French geographer and cartographer
About the true value of graphics
Interview with Jacques Bertin (2003)
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
Charles Babbage (1791–1871) mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable c…
Quoted in William Kenneth Richmond (1969), The Education Industry.
May be modern paraphrase of "the errors which arise from the absence of facts" quote above.
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Kaoru Ishikawa (1915–1989) Japanese business theorist
Kaoru Ishikawa in: Annual Quality Congress Transactions, (1981), p. 130
“The plural of anecdote is not data.”
Marc Bekoff (1945) American biologist
“Certainty, not data, is knowledge.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
The Factors (1967).
Walter A. Shewhart (1891–1967) American statistician
Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product,1931
