“No data is preferable to poor data.”
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 2, “Pulsar” Section 3 (p. 26)
“Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
Source: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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