We Can Say, "if You Want Government Money, You Have To Make This Data Public - You Have To Share It."
There's A World Of Difference . . . Between That Information To Which We Now Presumably Have Access By Way Of Computers, Libraries, And The Rest Of It, Great Stockpiles Of Data, And The Knowledge That People Have In Their Bones By Which They Do Good Work And Live Good Lives.
Once He Could Read And Write He Would Have A Mind Fit To Rule. So Ran The Democratic Doctrine. But Instead Of A Mind, Universal Literacy Has Given Him Rubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps Inked With Advertising Slogans, With Editorials, With Published Scientific Data, With The Trivialities Of The Tabloids And The Platitudes Of History, But Quite Innocent Of Original Thought.
I Think That Having Good Data, Good Statistics-and The United States Generally Has Better Macroeconomic Statistics Than Most Countries-and Having Good Economists To Interpret Those Data And Present The Policy Alternatives, Has A Substantially Beneficial Effect On Policymaking In The United States.
Knowing Is Not Simply A Material Act, Since The Object That Is Known Always Conceals Something Beyond The Empirical Datum. All Our Knowledge, Even The Most Simple, Is Always A Minor Miracle, Since It Can Never Be Fully Explained By The Material Instruments That We Apply To It. In Every Truth There Is Something More Than We Would Have Expected, In The Love That We Receive There Is Always An Element That Surprises Us.
Under My Definition, A Scientific Theory Is A Proposed Explanation Which Focuses Or Points To Physical, Observable Data And Logical Inferences. There Are Many Things Throughout The History Of Science Which We Now Think To Be Incorrect Which Nonetheless Would Fit That Which Would Fit That Definition. Yes, Astrology Is In Fact One.
The Conclusion Of Design Flows Naturally From The Data; We Should Not Shrink From It; We Should Embrace It And Build On It.
Even The Best Data Security Systems Can't Protect Private Taxpayer Information From Entrepreneurial Foreign Businesses Than Can Make Huge Profits Selling U.s. Taxpayer Information.
Social Security, Bank Account, And Credit Card Numbers Aren't Just Data. In The Wrong Hands They Can Wipe Out Someone's Life Savings, Wreck Their Credit And Cause Financial Ruin.
When I Was Standing There On Top Of The World, You Become So Humble, You Do Not Think About Breaking Records Anymore, You Do Not Think About Gaining Scientific Data. The Only Thing You Want Is To Come Back Alive
Computer Science Only Indicates The Retrospective Omnipotence Of Our Technologies. In Other Words, An Infinite Capacity To Process Data (but Only Data -- I.e. The Already Given) And In No Sense A New Vision. With That Science, We Are Entering An Era Of Exhaustivity, Which Is Also An Era Of Exhaustion.
Our Initial Sensory Data Are Always "first Derivatives," Statements About Differences Which Exist Among External Objects Or Statements About Changes Which Occur Either In Them Or In Our Relationship To Them. Objects And Circumstances Which Remain Absolutely Constant Relative To The Observer, Unchanged Either By His Own Movement Or By External Events, Are In General Difficult And Perhaps Always Impossible To Perceive. What We Perceive Easily Is Difference And Change And Difference Is A Relationship.
