The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
John W Tukey in Sunset Salvo. 1986. The American Statistician 40(1): 72-76.
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Valentine: If I had to go to court…are there still judges like you?
The Judge: You won’t go to court. Justice doesn’t deal with the innocent.
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Trois couleurs: Rouge
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor
Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
This year requires an extra dose of new perspective, to make the most of time, to bring the best of people.
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.
Italo Calvino in Six Memos For The Next Millennium
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant
Harlan Ellison