#ata

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#account #akin #between #continuity #data

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#believe #bit #data #freak #i

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#come #countries #data #imf #investment

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#data #entering #important #may #more

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#about #any #bright #catastrophe #feeling

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#always #amount #answer #come #data

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#cataclysmic #had #japan #modelled #modern

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#christians #data #however #indicate #jews

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span. ↗

— Evan Parker

#argument #catalog #coming #fifteen #good

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand. ↗

— James Payn

#anyone #be careful #careful #catastrophe #good