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Letter "D" » data
«Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions»
«The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.»
«We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.»
«The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.»
«Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.»
«Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.»
«The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.»
«To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.»
«The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion»
«We can see that the mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparison of these with each other, the selection of some, and the suppression of others, of the rest, by the reinforcing and inhibiting agency of attention . The highest and most celebrated mental products are filtered from the data chosen by the faculty below that - which mass was in turn sifted from a still larger amount of simpler material, and so on.»
Author: William James
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Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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