Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
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JOE LEADINGHAM DHS' role is that of a steward of data about the use of the law. This is a law, not a DHS program, a...
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GEORGE DAVIS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI When we first started working on the product, we were frustrated with the calendar products out ther...
CARL SJOGREEN The council thought of putting in a data protection clause, which we would have liked, but it was sh...
GUS HOSEIN The story here in the data over the last couple of days is upward surprises. Just like we saw an upw...
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CAROLINE WHITACRE We're entering a market where it's often the case where you are working with and competing with esta...
BOB MUGLIA We went through a lot of pain, and spent a lot of money just for data processing costs on some prett...
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THOMAS HARRIS Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's...
LISA RANDALL We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO We recognize the need of our customers to get this data quickly and to be able to use it easily. We'...
DON SEGAL The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN The Treasury market is already nervous and we have data coming out that can make the market even mor...
ALEXANDRE VASARHELYI Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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LEARNED HAND So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our ...
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KANNANKOTE SRIKANTH Paul's considerable development experience, team leadership skills, and knowledge of scalable data a...
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BEN RUDD I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Of course, the data brokers themselves should be regulated to ensure that their activities are for w...
AVIVAH LITAN We used to solve data integration by imposing controls at critical choke points. SOA eliminates thes...
RON SCHMELZER Security is a critical factor in electronic data processing. Our e-forms products have security feat...
JOE LYONS We've taken our timely raw-material timber-pricing data to the next level, which will ultimately hel...
PETE STEWART They didn't even look at it, but they didn't have the data. We have the data in our office.
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ANTHONY DOERR To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
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TIM BARNETT Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate i...
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ABELLA ARTHUR This is just one piece of data we look at. This isn't a trend indicator in proficiency.
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PETER DAVENPORT I think that's the real issue because that's what they wanted [trace data] for and that's exactly wh...
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JOSEPH WHITE When you build a house
You nail down memories
Paint and stain the fabric of time
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DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West...
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BEN JONSON Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ...
BEN MANSKI