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“Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.”
“We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he ana...”
“You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”
“CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the publ...”
“Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the gove...”
“Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.”
“Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.”
“The internet changed the world with data. Netiquette is making it a better place with information. NetworkEtiquette.net”
“I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie,' he said, 'is "The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who h...”
“It's proper Netiquette to protect data with passwords. NetworkEtiquette.net”
“Wesley Crusher: Say goodbye, Data. Lt. Cmdr. Data: Goodbye, Data. [crew laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Was that funny? Wesley Crusher: [laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Accessing. Ah! Burns and Allen, Roxy Theate...”
“Data: My positronic brain has several layers of shielding to protect me from power surges. It would be possible for you to remove my cranial unit and take it with you.Riker: Let me get this straigh...”
“If we have data, lets look at data. If all we have are opinions, lets go with mine.”
“In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.”
“The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information,...”
“If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”
“Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
“Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and ...”
“Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.”
